Listen to the Canada jay
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About the Canada jay
The Canada jay is a bird in the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Canada jay sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call and song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae. It is found in boreal forests of North America, north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona. A fairly large songbird, the Canada jay has pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts, and a grey-white head with a darker grey nape. It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, a genus more closely related to the magpie genus Cyanopica than to other birds known as jays. The Canada jay itself has nine recognized subspecies.
More from the family Corvidae
Common raven
Corvus corax
Eurasian magpie
Pica pica
Eurasian jay
Garrulus glandarius
Western jackdaw
Coloeus monedula
Rook
Corvus frugilegus
Hooded crow
Corvus cornix
Carrion crow
Corvus corone
Northern nutcracker
Nucifraga caryocatactes
Blue jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Alpine chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus
Red-billed chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
House crow
Corvus splendens
Frequently asked questions
What does a Canada jay sound like?
You can hear 5 recordings of the Canada jay on this page, including its call and song. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the Canada jay endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Canada jay as “least concern”.
What family does the Canada jay belong to?
The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) belongs to the family Corvidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Perisoreus canadensis - Grey Jay by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call, song · Blue Bell Campground, Custer State Park, South Dakota… by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Blue Bell Campground, Custer State Park, South Dakota… by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Blue Bell Campground, Custer State Park, South Dakota… by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call, song by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q80858 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Canada jay – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by USFWS Midwest Region from Midwest Region, United States – Public domain