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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
During most of the year Blue Jays attract a great deal of attention with brilliant blue plumage and a wide variety of raucous calls, including a piercing jeeay. Omnivorous, its diet consists largely of insects, fruits, seeds, and eggs and young robbed from other birds' nests. Their aggressive and boisterous behaviour allows them to dominate at any feeder. Although essentially a bird of the deciduous forests of eastern North America, the Blue Jay's range does extend north into the southern boreal forest, including a corridor west through the Prairie Provinces to east-central British Columbia; at least some birds in northern portions of the range are migratory (AOU 1998).
Mixed and deciduous woodlands and wooded banks of creeks are the preferred habitats. Blue Jays also frequent urban areas and farmsteads, where they are attracted to bird feeders, especially during fall and winter.
Blue Jays are common throughout the southern boreal region and parklands and uncommon in the northern boreal region, grasslands, and Cypress Hills (Smith 1996). They have increased gradually since the 1950s at many farmsteads and throughout towns and cities, coincident with the planting of numerous spruce trees and as bird feeders have become ubiquitous.
Original text by Harold E. Fisher. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Blue Jay in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Blue Jay in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=BLJA&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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