Definition of blue jay
: a crested bright blue North American jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
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This spring, baby birds (starting with starlings and sparrows and then songbirds such as robins, blue jays, cardinals and mockingbirds) will hatch.
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Unlike most Easter egg hunts, a mad rush for a lawn filled with plastic eggs, visitors at Northwest Park searched for replicas of robin or blue jay eggs or the many species that nest in forests around Connecticut.
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Female sharp shins are larger than their male counterparts, but neither is truly large; a male sharp shin is only slightly larger than an average blue jay.
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Most examples in nature — the clear autumn sky, the blue jay’s vibrant feathers, butterfly wing spots — originate in light refraction.
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In our yard in western Alabama were dozens of doves, hundreds of finches, an abundance of blue jays.
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Today a blue jay hopped along the shore near where a beaver had built a lodge of alder limbs.
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When Ms Devine checked out the place for the first time, the tree held a blue jay and its nest.
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They are replaced with shrieks of blue jays and the white-noise rustle of the wind through the leaves.
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First Known Use of blue jay
1709
BLUE JAY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of blue jay for English Language Learners
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: a common American bird that is mostly blue
BLUE JAY Defined for Kids
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Definition of blue jay for Students
: a crested and mostly blue North American bird related to the crows
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