A Magpie Negotiating With A Blue Jay

A Magpie Negotiating With A Blue Jay
This camera is in Northwest Montana and Features Finches, Sparrows, Collared Doves, Magpies, Blue Jays, and European Starlings.
It also Occasionally Features Northern Flickers, Red Winged Black Birds, Chickadees, Gold Finches, Robins, and Crows.

[@bluebee5266]

Fun Fact: Blue jays pick up one peanut after another to feel how heavy each one is, then chooses the heaviest to carry away.

[@spook6394]

My bluejays take peanuts and then hide them under fallen leaves 😂😂 idk if they’re selective in order, but they definitely take all of the peanuts

[@HiGlowie]

Yes! My blue jays in my backyard do this! Love leaving peanuts out for those guys

[@Agent_Ice0]

So true! I'll throw my blue jays a couple of handfuls of peanuts every morning. I'll sit then figure out which peanuts they want to take with them. They're pretty funny.

[@broke7436]

during the spring this year this blue jay couple would always come and get peanuts and both would fly away with 2 almost each time.

[@penyunne]

I've noticed magpies do this too.

[@MarshallArtz007]

My bluejays rotate peanuts in their beaks, like they’re judging a fine cigar. If the shells are roasted too dark, they will literally pick them up and drop them over the railing on the porch while I watch. It’s so funny. They are peanut connoisseurs. 🥜🐦

[@JoonasD6]

Good to hear about this, since my two African greys also just seem to "randomly" refuse some specific nuts due to surface texture.

[@BaronRodney]

​@@JoonasD6Clearly these are birds of high nobility that accept gifts of only the highest quality.

[@ApocGenesis]

"What do you think of this one? Last year's harvest, solid texture...density's quite nice." "Won't touch it." "Really?" "Look at the dimpling on the shell. It's been scorched, ain't it? Damn nut's seen the inside of the sun." "Oh come on, I"m sure it's a perfectly fine nut." "Go on then. Cheers to ya." "Cheers and--PFFBTPluck me, that's vile!" "Tried to warn ya, mate. Inside of--" "--of the sun, you're right. Pluck me. Awful, awful stuff. Like licking the underside of a human's car." "Shoulda checked the dimpling, mate."

[@Robin-xt7yo]

@@ApocGenesis 😂🥜

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah apparently this is their typical behavior. It's kind of adorable

[@nou1534]

*"Woooooooooooooo"* Just here to comment on ever blue Jays video I seen

[@masterchief9177]

Damn that was one nutty experience.

[@FriskyJackopumpkin]

Mordecai?

[@PearlCradle]

Fun Fact: These birds were negotiating

[@wilcoxway]

Fun fact: Both Bluejays and Magpies are both in the crow family. Both are incredibly smart.

[@MetalBansheeX]

Unlike Mordecai

[@metalllich3493]

​@@MetalBansheeXMordecai is pretty smart though?

[@dsrguru]

They're not classified as subspecies of a single crow species per se, but jays, magpies, and crows are all species (actually multiple species spanning several different genera) of one corvid family.

[@wilcoxway]

Yeah, that's what I meant.@@dsrguru

[@Mildewpants]

"Here's the thing." 😅

[@CG-sf1uw]

Benson: Mordecai stop negotiating with that magpie and get back to work or you're FIRED!

[@shameimaru_aya]

Rigby: sigh fine

[@arditeider2812]

And then they accidentally angered the magpie god or something

[@AmiWhiteWolf]

Haha I miss that show. Back in the day when Cartoon Network had the best!

[@LM1954]

I read it in his voice.

[@shameimaru_aya]

Muscle Man: You know who also negotiates with magpies? MY MOM!!

[@Robin-xt7yo]

Both are members of the Corvidae family. Highly intelligent.

[@Gazing-09]

I didn't know that so thank you for sharing.

[@Robin-xt7yo]

@@Gazing-09 Same family as Crows and Ravens, the smartest birbs!

[@Jeddostotle7]

​@@anonymerspeckbauch9851no?

[@gamechanger8908]

Corvidae comprise of Crows, Ravens, Jackdaws, Magpies and Jays. A very diverse group of intelligent birds.

[@The-Devils-Advocate]

@@anonymerspeckbauch9851with an r. Corvid

[@recruitmentch]

Just like 99.99% of birds, it seems to be more interested in the magpie not taking a nut than itself taking one as well. My balcony overlooks a body of water called the Shadwell basin. we have coots, moorhens, Canada and Egyptian geese, swans etc etc. They're always hellbent on chasing the others away from the food I give them than enjoying it themselves. The male mallards go chasing other male mallards in circles whilst not even taking a single bite themselves. Absurd creatures.

[@furrycircuitry2378]

How must the outside observers feel about us?

[@whatTFisThis]

i think they do it bcuz they plan to eat the food but then get scared by a bigger threat and dont want the food, my domestic birds also sometimes do this either that or theyre just being assholes, which some of my birds also are

[@recruitmentch]

But the coots and mallards even do it amongst themselves. I feed them daily and they come to the edge the moment they see me. When I throw the nuts etc in the water, coots come running from all directions. And yet within 10 seconds, two coots turn on everyone else to keep them out of their territory. A huge chasing game ensues resulting in the other birds being attracted and them swooping in to eat the food instead 😂The swans are the biggest assholes. They go chasing the Canada geese every when they're 30 meters away. And don't even get me started on the seagulls...!@@whatTFisThis

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

they don't know when their next meal is coming, if at all. resource guarding makes perfect sense

[@recruitmentch]

did you read what I wrote? they don't guard sh*t. They just concentrate on driving away the other birds, and in turn don't eat the food themselves. when the coots are fighting, the mallards just do a circular turn and come for the food whilst the coot are fighting. And then a lone male mallard turns up which takes all of the attention of the other male mallard and they end up chasing one another. splash splash ensues which attracts the seagulls, and amongst the mayhem the seagulls devour everything.@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment

[@hollowgod8824]

Rigby is somewhere finding food rather than doing work.

[@freakyninja3545]

That blu jay better do work or it's FIRED!

[@theonly6blake911]

@@freakyninja3545 You know who else better do work or they’re fired?

[@bichinhoinflavio]

​@@theonly6blake911MY MOM

[@DebuggerKnight]

gimme da gorbage

[@nathangamble125]

*than

[@alessandro348]

Bro how have squirrels not dumpstered that feeder?

[@FVBirdCam]

I do not know.

[@SirChucklenutsTM]

Uhh we don't fuqq wit magpies

[@zanir2387]

Maybe the Feeder Is installed in a wall with no Places to climb for the squirrels

[@Furious321]

@@FVBirdCam "I'm not sure..." -- *[Reloads .22]*

[@Ash_Wen-li]

​@@zanir2387Looking at where that is, squirrels can easily get there. I've seen them scale vertical walls

[@Ins0mnia365]

In europe i've seen corvid spiecies working or communicating together. Like Rookies, Magpies, Carrion Crows, Hooded crows and Jackdaws. So it's awesome to see it on video!

[@Eddierath]

If they all decide we are "in the way" we're finished 😂😂😂

[@jackdaniels6536]

​@@Eddierathif they were bigger tho, i think they would organize lol. Because you can only do so much when you are so small, no matter how smart

[@azuresiren5846]

"Crovids alone weak, Corvids together strong"

[@jackdaniels6536]

@@azuresiren5846 i fed some crows before while everyone was chasing them away for some reason. They gave me some gifts in return but they didnt stick around for long because of my cats. Hopefully they come back one day such interesting and smart animals

[@n0odles86]

I get rooks, magpies, and jackdaws in my garden. The rooks and Jackdaws have first dibs on the warm meal worms (husband soaks them in hot water for 5 minutes before breakfast time). Then when the magpies turn up, it's time for the others to leave. It was 1 rook originally. Then he turned up one day with his woman. A week later, 4 showed up. Then 10. Then one day, came out and there were 16 rooks in the tree on the hill above my house, waiting. Must have about 30 corvids visit throughout the day now. Costing me a fortune in suet and mealworms. I also have bluetits, coaltits, blackbirds, robins, and the loudest, the tiny house sparrow. I go through 20 kilos of suet every 2 weeks. And about a kilo of mealworms every week.

[@mikroraptor]

Love the magpie whisper-singing at the jay. The ones in our neighbourhood sing to our chickens, i think to try and tell them this is their foraging space, but the chickens dont gaf so its like that crying wojak vs chad meme

[@youtubepaidformydivorce]

the magpies in my attic do this every morning. my chickens sing back, but they're never in key

[@Marcuss99]

The chickens are the chads in this situation 😂

[@mftmss7086]

they smart nee gaas

[@zakiAIT]

I think they are saying: WOOOOOOOOO wo

[@Kytetiger]

There was a blue jay that hide his peanuts in the pot of one of our plants on our balcony. But in winter, we bring the plants inside. I saw the blue jay come one day, look around, then notice the plant inside. He was angry

[@sxatcychan1988]

Same thing happened with me. Except the blue jay never came back, and the pot had a dozen sunflower sprouts during the winter.

[@dulcecitarisitas3504]

Angy (⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)

[@qeytmyok2473]

What did the bird do then?

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

​@@qeytmyok2473 Probably found a new place to hide his food😊

[@rinkashikachi]

Fun fact. Due to their unique muscle structure everytime Blue jays squeeze something with their beak they silently fart

[@DriverNeku]

Do they also make an occasional "wheeeeoow" sound? Situationally with a racoon?

[@LakesideTrey]

That explains why they are so grumpy

[@raumfahreturschutze]

This probably isn't true but I'm going to accept it for now and laugh anyway lol

[@Tophatguy665]

"Mordecai get back to work or your fired!!!!"

[@thelusogerman3021]

Bluejays look like they're the main character straight out of a movie/game about birds i swear lol

[@DriverNeku]

Or do work for a gumball machine

[@hairglowingkyle4572]

MORDECAI STOP PICKING UP PEANUTS OR YOURE FIRED

[@ligondesenuts769]

Regular Show

[@thelusogerman3021]

@ligondesenuts769 yeah but even if regular show didn't exist. That bird is HIM

[@truebruhmoment4667]

Everytime I see a blue jay I immediately think that they are all the same and they all have a racoon next to them somewhere...

[@Reac2]

Many animals clearly atleast attempt to communicate what they want, but I wonder if, like humans, they get frustrated at another animals stupidity when they don't understand something that they understand. If so, I think they might be way more like us than we thought. Scientists get in on that!

[@VineFynn]

Animals aren't language enabled (their brains can't understand negation, tenses or inquiry), so that's not what's going on.

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

@VineFinn, It is. Birds communicate with each other, within their own kind. Its scientifically believed, that bird talk ranges somewhere below whales & dolphins. But what do we really know? The subsonic elephant talk that reaches several miles. We have no clue. Magpies even sound a bit like dolphins.

[@youtubepaidformydivorce]

@@VineFynn this has been proven false in countless field studies. they've found many species of animal which were capable of higher speech, the problems is the language barrier between man and beast. please do more research before talking about things you don't know. you can do better, i believe it

[@beansworth5694]

@@VineFynn Well, there are different sorts of communication other than the pseudo-explicit thing we humans try to do with sentence construction. Animals communicate, the actual self-referential complexity is just much lower. What reactions one shows when observed by an other is communication. We speak with our bodies, we're expressive like that, but sometimes the expressions aren't registered as intended or expected. Animals may not generally speaking utilize language, but this does not imply a lack of communication. That'd be a very anthropomorphic lens to view relationships that wouldn't even fully encompass what we humans get up to.

[@dinodare1605]

@@VineFynn Those are different types of communication. Also there are some species where this is still up in the air, like cetaceans.

[@PainCausingSamurai]

I conditioned the bluejays in my yard to catch peanuts out of the air. I think they find it fun, since now they wait for me to throw them, even if there are readily available nuts on the ground or in the feeder.

[@letmebeapariah]

magpies are known bullies so it’s really surprising to me and cute

[@ooklamoc4411]

I was surprised neither of them chose violence.

[@NoctuaOlivae]

Blue jays are just as bad if not worse.

[@whatTFisThis]

magpies "bully" people to protect their nests and offspring, just like bears, geese also are known as bullies for thr same reason, but in reality they just wanna protect their bloodlines blue jays have been known to purposely scare other birds in order to hog food tho

[@Madjo-qj2ge]

They still one family

[@shame2189]

Blue Jays are corvids just like magpies, so it's probably just "real recognize real" kinda thing

[@keki4578]

I know they can talk they just don’t want to pay taxes

[@willbrgamer5137]

The way Mordecai runs away in the end as the Crow comes back pissed at him is just cartoon comedy at it's peak.

[@youtubepaidformydivorce]

this cartoon looks so real

[@SHALLGLISTENBEFORETHETEMPLESOF]

​@@youtubepaidformydivorceCause it's from one of the newer seasons where they changed the art style a bit

[@remated6192]

​@@SHALLGLISTENBEFORETHETEMPLESOFnah, all they did was change the voice actor of rigby you can clearly hear his new voice actor in the background in this clip

[@bacoon6499]

magpie not a crow

[@youtubepaidformydivorce]

@@bacoon6499 that's not a real type of bird

[@alejandrostrass2559]

sorry if i´m too dumb but i don´t understand where the negotiation is lol

[@Firestar-TV]

Ah yes. The Negotiator

[@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd]

You were right about one thing, Firestar-TV. The negotations were short.

[@NormAlTheEnd]

Fun Fact: Fun Fact

[@eggheadusa]

Fun factception

[@tomaccino]

What are they supposed to negotiate? I didn't see any exchange.

[@eggheadusa]

Same, looks like magpie had a peanut that that the bluejay wants than mag flies off with said peanut

[@missingnoghost]

So glad I'm not the only one confused. Cute video nonetheless tho

[@paolopasaol9700]

Magpie: How many kilos do you wanna order, Sir? Blue Jay: WOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!

[@weesnaws12345]

Fun fact: everyone seems to know everything about birds

[@lifeisbeautiful015]

anything wrong with that? I can't imagine getting triggered just because people are sharing information. I can never understand why gen z kids find learning something cringe. like every time someone shares some cool facts, kids go "🤓". this generation is doomed

[@juicejooos]

@@lifeisbeautiful015 sir this is a wendy's

[@skrappy2970]

Nice pfp

[@AstraRemains]

​​@@lifeisbeautiful015 It seems like you had a bad day

[@lapsijahti]

​@@lifeisbeautiful015🤓

[@kristentucker7284]

Rigby watchin this while eating some popcorn he found from the trash 🍷🗿

[@zakoreastwind]

The Regular show live action is coming up nicely

[@reffa2858]

"Dude if we dont get those peanuts, Benson's going to kill us"

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

LMAO

[@MechaNintendoMast]

I love how many people automatically think of Regular Show on bluejay videos. Still one of my favorite shows.

[@justmegumi34]

It's kinda like how ppl instantly think of Phineas and Ferb on platypus vids

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

@@justmegumi34Or Nemo on clownfish vids

[@secondghost]

Fun Fact: Blue Jay's are not actually lizards, they are birds.

[@darkonyx6995]

But they are reptiles ;)

[@evancombs5159]

​@@darkonyx6995they are not reptiles, they evolved from reptiles.

[@DragonitaPurple]

​@@evancombs5159and bees aren't insects, they evolved from insects

[@darkonyx6995]

@@evancombs5159 Yes, they evolved from reptiles, which means that they ARE reptiles, since in taxonomy, you cannot outgrow your classification.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

So... Dinosaurs are replies?

[@Herrgabby]

I thought the blue jay was going to sound more like ''yeeeeeeah dude, wa wa''

[@flyinggeovishapthatcanswim2377]

More civilized than any online argument in the internet

[@psychopianist630]

"The Best Burger in the World" but "burger" is replaced with "peanut" and Benson is a magpie

[@zacharyk.2766]

And without a raccoon BFF!

[@EchoBoomer1987]

“Sir the suspect has barricaded himself in with the hostage. We are sending in our best negotiator.” *Bird nosies*

[@halone4254]

Elster negotiating with another replika

[@jimboramba]

Being a bird has got to be like living life in super fast forward

[@afro_souledits2382]

Bro I swear if you make this business deal , Margaret will fall in love with you

[@Gelatinocyte2]

I can imagine an early season episode of Regular Show where a "love guru"/pick-up artist magpie is trying to scam Mordecai.

[@MakeFutebolGreatAgain]

Wait till his raccoon friend pulls up and spins the block. 🗣Uoooooooooooohhh !!!

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

When there's enough food to go around the bird world can be harmonious. When there isn't....😮

[@JohnTranYouTube]

I thought of Mordecai from Regular Show when I first saw the thumbnail of this video.

[@hg6675]

Fun fact: there are more magpies on Earth than atoms in the observable Universe

[@dinodare1605]

Are you sure about that?

[@feminico2613]

​@@dinodare1605yes it's true

[@dinodare1605]

@@feminico2613 ...so is each magpie made up of less than one atom?

[@kjarakravik4837]

​@dinodare1605 yes exactly, now you get it!

[@feminico2613]

@@dinodare1605 yes, the ratio is about 40 magpies to 1 atom in the universe, as we have observed before

[@wallysworst]

Magpie: listen we can talk this out and share there's plenty to go around Blue Jay: peabnut

[@cosmobane6995]

Blue Jay: "Dude, not cool"

[@ThMrksman]

Eugh, it's that one guy who touches all the food on the share platter.

[@michaelsmith8028]

Live action Regular Show.

[@anponmon]

Idk what facts these comments are spitting about blue jays and stuff but all I see is modercai making a deal with the grim reaper to get impress Margaret with a supply of peanuts

[@123TauruZ321]

Never heard a magpie make that kind of sound before.

[@locdo425]

mordecai vs anti pops xd

[@heroldjaras9909]

i believe this video will get over million views after a few years.

[@Mythicaldaniel]

Lol I remember this episode of regular show

[@masguapoako]

*I love birds* 🐦

[@ericpratt984]

Gotta love what God has created

[@LockPick-g2b]

Fun fact the blue jay is actually called a Mordecai

[@DolusVulpes]

i feel like watching different types of corvids interacting must be like a microcosm of what interactions between different hominids mustve been like before all but us went extinct

[@BelafUnik]

Mordecai fight in this multiverse because benson say to him to drop the trash

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

Just like no real-life snow owl is a Hedwig, no real-life bluejay is a Mordecai. Stop naming wild animals, it's boring.

[@Wheatly8055]

​@@einundsiebenziger5488no I think that's mordecai

[@Nockgun]

@@einundsiebenziger5488🤓 but stop being a killjoy.

[@poggestfrog]

@@einundsiebenziger5488 yeah, it's called a joke

[@phantomwraith1984]

Blue Jays are so cute

[@LCTesla]

Blue Jay: how about you take **one** peanut and fly off and then me and my buddies won't have to shank ya

[@b7uh]

wooooaah woooah woooooaaah

[@FishMan188]

WOOOAAAHHH!!

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

WOAHHHHHHHH WOAH WOAH WOAHHHHH

[@dapaps8858]

Lets play punchies

[@mellonhead9568]

Mordecai is real

[@Stealth_Droid]

Mordecai trying to solve another puzzle to recover something that Rigby lost:

[@BEANBOYOBEANITH]

WOOOOOOAHHAHH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

[@OnimoIndustries]

“OI GET OFF MAH TURF.” “Mate there’s like 8 other peanuts and countless seeds, no need to shout.”

[@r0z557]

Fun Fact: If you know Regular Show, everytime you see this bird you will inmediately think of Mordecai

[@highlandeross]

anyone who actually feeds peanuts to bluejays will soon realize its too expensive the blue jays just take them all, one after the other, fly away come back etc. they dont come to eat on the spot like other birds

[@prizeinside]

Fun fact. Both are members of the corvidae family. Highly intelligent. I talk with them for hours on which stock seems most promising and even helped me with my physics exam!

[@lookatthebatbaby]

Move along kids its just a random Regular show clip

[@BlueXploiter]

Mordecai negotiating with a smuggler for peanuts, we got evidence!

[@HarryAyA]

Mordecai.

[@MatchaNoelFrog]

“Hello, fine peanut you have there, you see I saw an attractive lady by the water and I-“ “It’s my sister, Johnson, stop trying to negotiate with me.” “Well fine! Who gives a cluck of a hen of what you do anyway!” (The peanut still looks yummy.) “I’ll just take this then.”

[@justsomeguywithamustache3188]

Mordecai has become a great negotiator

[@gabrielrodriguez6936]

Got the video right after witnessing a blue Jay and a hawk fight and kill themselves by hitting fence too hard

[@SaulGoodman399]

Fake and unrealistic, the blue jay should be talking and have a raccoon as best friend.

[@VeryRGOTI]

OHHHHHHHH!!!

[@Bludobi9001]

"The negotiations will be short" ~Qui Gon Jinn

[@vincentmichael7979]

You were right about one thing, master

[@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd]

@@vincentmichael7979 The negotations were short.

[@nigellien7511]

They're Literally counting peanuts 😂

[@Ultimate_Hater75]

Imagine dinosaurs having similar interactions.

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

Thief taunting a pair of sociopathic murderers

[@dodsa8907]

Probably a Regular Show episode

[@Mr.Needle-Hamster]

Ah yes, the negotiatior

[@sethbrownberg7675]

oh yes , diplomats of bird kingdom ! yes

[@gmwr8066]

Woahh woa

[@Airborntx]

fun fact: i haven't taken a shower in like 3 days.

[@lonelysnakewei6176]

my parents also like to put some cake crumb on the balcony. of all the birds dropping by, magpies are the most nice that they usually left some for other birds like some waiting in line sparrows. and there're some bulbuls will take all the crumbs when they come. they will also drive any nearby sparrows away. I'd been observed for several days and found out that the magpies never showed up at the same time with the bulbuls, clever.

[@Senioritis012]

Birds (Corvids) intelligence is super underrated. I fed my Scrub Jays mealworms (almost got them to hand feed) and after watching them, some of the time they give the worm a quick chomp, dig a hole and put a leaf over it. I came back a few hours later and the worm was gone!

[@305backup]

They save snacks for later lol

[@n0odles86]

My magpies do that; dig a quick hole, stuff the best treat in there to hide it from the rest, and go back to the feeding area. Then when they leave, they dig up their hidden snack and fly off with it. I've seen them pulling the tails on the rats and chase off the squirrels, too. Like a game... See the rat, sneak up to it, yank!, fly up in amusement when the rat retaliates. Hilarious. One of them likes to shout down at my neighbour's cat if she makes the mistake of passing through. It yells from the bird bath, which is only about 3 feet high. Cat just slinks away in shame 😂

[@hadgeron9556]

That is one weird looking magpie

[@mistermisfortune13]

My one desire in life is to be known by corvids as a good friend, and to be able to interact with the birds I've admired since my childhood

[@aviel4218]

I'm surprised that they are doing this because both Bluejays and magpies belong to the same family called the crow family which obviously also includes crows and it really makes sense that they would negotiate because both magpies and Bluejays are very intelligent birds because the crow family is home to very intelligent birds

[@n0odles86]

Then why are you surprised?

[@aviel4218]

@@n0odles86 Idk maybe it's because I never have witnessed both species of birds crossing paths😐🤷

[@hagrid397]

Wait, blue jays are in Australia?! Or are magpies in more places besides Australia?

[@FVBirdCam]

This is a Black Billed Magpie, which is an American species of Magpie primarily found in the Rocky Mountains. There is also Eurasian Magpies Found All over Europe and in parts of Asia. Magpies all over the world! 😀

[@daudiochero]

So this is what mordecai gets upto

[@Surprise_Inspection]

"A bluejay is the bully of the forest, but a bluejay wont sit on mockingbird nest, because the bluejay will get beat every time." In the electric mist.

[@alikherbek2199]

Mordecai, is that you?