Stellar's Jay
Cynocitta Stelleri
By Daniel J.
The Stellar's Jay is North America's largest jay-and the
most noisiest. It lives a life much like that of it's eastern relative,
the blue jay, high on mountain slopes, among forests of cone-bearing evergreens.
It's most familiar cry is a repetitive Shaack! Shaack! delivered with lot
of energy and a show of the long dusky crest that rised when it is angry.
Now being a jay, this is how they are most of the time. Steller's are very
good at copying calls, espeally the calls of birds of prey. It saves it's
soft song for a spot seldom within hearing of humans. Stellars become quite
secretive once paired for mating, until the young with assertiveness.
They have a fondness for acorns and pine seeds,
also catch insects very well. Because the Stellar's taste's, they often
raid grimfields, orchards, and nests of other songbirds.
Recognition: 12-131/2 in. long. Dark and crested.
Belly, wings, and tail are deep blue; head, crest, back, and breast are
blackish. makes a loud Shaack! Shaack!
Habitat: Coniferous forests
Nest: Stick and twigs lined with mud, 8-16 ft.
above ground, on brach of conifer. Eggs are a pale blue or greenish brown.
They have between 5-3 eggs. Only females sit on the egg until they hatch,
which usually lasts 16 day. It is not known how long the nesting period
is.
Food: Nuts, seeds, fruits, insects.
This is my drawing. 
Reflection on this project