What an amazing bird…
A bird that brightens the parched areas it inhabits with a welcome splash of blue, green, and yellow.
The top of its head, cheeks, and neck are covered in yellowish-white feathers with blue tips on the green jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus), a New World jay.
As they become older, the beautiful golden color on their breasts and belly fades to cream.
Their upper portions are a rich shade of green. These birds have a distinctive crest made of large nasal bristles.
Along with a thick black bib that reaches up to the sides of their skulls, they also have stripes above and through their eyes.
This species’ females look similar to its males.
Green jays prefer to live in lowland brushy forested areas where acacia, ebony, and hackberry are the dominant plants.
They can also withstand stands of short oak trees and mesquite bushes.
On the lower mountain slopes and in the foothills of tropical regions, they favor damp forests.
In addition to acorns and grains of wheat, these birds consume a wide variety of insects and other invertebrates.
They will take any human remains they can get their hands on when the opportunity arises.
These birds build their nests in Texas during the nesting season out of sticks, thorny twigs, rootlets, grass, moss, and leaves.
It is formed like a cup and is made by both sexes. Three to five eggs are placed inside, and the female incubates them for 17 to 18 days.
Both parents feed the young when the eggs hatch; they become fledged after 19 to 22 days.
Due to its extremely large range, this species does not meet the Vulnerable criteria according to the range size criterion.
20,000 km2 of area of Occurrence along with a declining or fluctuating size of the range, the extent or quality of the habitat, the number of the population, and a few isolated locations or severe fragmentation.
