The Life of a Blue Jay - Documentary

In this video, we take a look at one of the world's most interesting birds, a bird whose intelligence may have long been underestimated.

* Note, the "Northern" in blue jay was dropped from the name of the species. It is now only the blue jay.

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- Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach]

- Enchanted Journey

Picture attributions:

[1] "Hungry Blue Jay Chick Calls for Parents." By Benjamin Gelman.

[2] "Blue Jay on a Feeding." By PEGGY.

[3] "Blue Jay Pecking at Food in The Snow." By jesuis terun_vision

[4] "Blue Jay Finishing Splashing in The Bird Bath Then Flies Away." By Harold.

[5] "Drama Unfoldd as Two Blue Jays Swoop in For a Peanut, With One Quick Grab That Leaves the Other in Hilarious Disbelief." By Tigarto

[6] "Mesmerizing Slow-Mo: Blue Jay Swiftly Swooping in for a Peanut Grab!" By Tigarto

[Fireoflearning]

This video was originally uploaded to our science channel, Lucinox, in February of 2024. We have moved this video here as a part of an experiment to better understand the YouTube algorithm.

[MansakeLabsOfficial]

Blue Jays are also known to make comedic video essays on military history.

[balpreetsingh]

Yeah, so is this a conspiracy between BlueJay and Fire of Learning?

[MarcMagma]

Funny coincidence.
The channel Blue Jay uploaded a new video just 2 minutes ago.

[guyparris]

I am glad that you differentiated between blue jay and stellar jay as when I moved to Seattle everyone called a Stellar Jay a Blue Jay!

[Nobody-s]

I had a blue jay friend that would visit to get in shell peanuts. He/She would pick up different ones, "weigh" each by bobbing their head up and down a little. And then pick whatever one seemed the best. They also make a sound I call "squeaky door" bc that's what it reminds me of! The one that visited me wasn't phased by other birds or squirrels going at the seed and peanuts at the same time. Such beautiful and smart birds!

[grayski]

Well, one is smart enough to work at the park.

[eugeniaamariei]

I was just watching BlueJay's new video on pirate kings and got notified of this. 😂

[Esme-adventure-awaits]

I’ve never seen a blue jay in person. Great info on blue jays 👌

[lovenothate]

4:08 I learned something today that I wasn't expecting. You said that blue jays share their genus with only one other bird, the Stellar jay. This left me quite confused as I'm quite familiar with green jays, which live in Texas where I grew up. So I looked it up and now I know that green jays are actually more closely related to ravens than blue jays! THank you for the teachable moments!

[zpirateko]

They have exhibited behavior that scientists have described as a form of "groundskeeping"

[deltastudios]

Wow, BlueJay uploaded the same day as this video about Blue Jays.

Coincidence?

I think not!

[TakoyakiStore]

Blue Jays are so silly. At my bird feeder they will shovel out all the seeds they don't like and keep all the sunflower seeds for themselves. I've heard that they also do something similar with peanuts (no relation to the capybara).

[ronrothrock]

Regarding the call mimicry toward the end of the video... I've seen them do this to squirrels while the squirrel is cashing food. The squirrel run and hides and the jay swoops in and raids the cash.

[Mote.]

I was just talking about blue jays recently. They're so awesome.

[sethleoric]

It's also an expert slacker, and gets into adventures with it's raccoon friend.

[chrislyons]

I’m from Canada and I love the blue jays

[jonbenoit]

I love these so much. Thanks for the videos

[ColbyRRice]

I was very calmly and maturely listening to all the fascinating facts in this video... and then I spat out my coffee, laughing UPROARIOUSLY at "she wants a man that keeps it 100". 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant.

[timorean]

I live in Fla., have lived at current home, almost 6 years. I started feeding some squirrels, and now I feed everything. When I walk outside, and a Blue Jay hears a peanut hit cement, its like a Hitchcock Movie. Some are regulars, know I aint gonna do nothing, and fly right to me. Im waiting for 1 to land on my lap 1 day, lol. Very Intelligent animals.