Steller's Jay [OC]

@Elextra@literature.cafe · edit-2 15 days ago

Steller's Jay [OC]

ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔 · 7 days ago

These jays will never stop being one of the most beautiful birds I’ve yet to see. Some day we will meet. 😁

vortic · edit-2 15 days ago

Great photo! I always love these guys. The goth versions of Blue Jays!

I don’t want to be pedantic but it’s “Steller’s Jay”.

The bird is named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first European to record them, in 1741. source

@Durandal · 15 days ago

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/inside-aos-recommendation-bird-common-names/

For now.

vortic · 15 days ago

Thank you for pointing this out. I wasn’t aware of this movement. It seems like a great idea!

@Durandal · 14 days ago

Yeah. I found it interesting. I have heard rumors that “ Audubon” might rename as well due to controversy around its namesake having been a slave trader.

Smitty · 14 days ago

@Durandal @Vorticity not a rumor.

@Elextra@literature.cafe · edit-2 15 days ago

Yes! I think they look like edgy Blue Jays haha!

Thank you so much!! I will edit!!

Kalcifer · 15 days ago

The familiar, raspy screeches of Cascadia!

@ElJefe@lemm.ee · 15 days ago

I love these birds. They’re very smart, but such assholes! They have learned to mimic a hawk’s call to scare off other little birds, and then raid their nests.

@Taniwha420@lemmy.world · 14 days ago

I thought you were in Sechelt, BC!

… though the “ranch” doesn’t make much sense there.