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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Most visitors to Saskatchewan's northland become familiar with this friendly and trusting bird, also known as Gray Jay, Whisky Jack, and Camp Robber. Often it can be habituated to take food from the hand and if food is provided, they take turns, disappearing to cache each tidbit, then returning for more until the handouts are gone. Canada Jays are permanent residents throughout the boreal forests of North America, south in the Rockies to northern New Mexico (Strickland and Ouellet 1993).
The Canada Jay occupies coniferous or deciduous-coniferous woodland, usually where mature conifers predominate. It is a regular visitor at bird feeders in the forest fringe and the "island forests? of Fort-à-la-Corne and Nisbet.
A common permanent resident, the Canada Jay seems secure at present in its year-round range throughout the boreal and subarctic forests of the province. Occurs uncommonly and irregularly in the parkland and very rarely in the grassland. Studies in eastern Canada suggest a downward trend in nesting success strongly associated with above-normal autumn temperatures, linked to climate change, presumably resulting in spoilage of cached-food reserves (Bird Studies Canada 2006).
Original text by Harold E. Fisher. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Canada Jay in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Canada 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=CAJA&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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