The Life of a Blue Jay - Documentary

[@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 KZbin algorithm.

[@splitfries69]

please do a video on the cali scrub J

[@nathangibson2114]

There is hardly anything in lucinox...

[@zachseeman5235]

well it served to recommend it to me. 🤔 days later. still good someone covered these corvids

[@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339]

@@zachseeman5235 I prefer crows

[@MansakeLabsOfficial]

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

[@Asiago9]

On the same day as fires are covering bluejays it seems

[@balpreetsingh6834]

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

[@Tyleya]

I came here to say the same thing!😂😂

[@Akren905]

He did almost get into CPgrey territory last video ahahah.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Yeah, it was weird seeing BlueJay release a video right before this one.

[@matthewwoods6501]

I like to think so

[@Nobody-s824]

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!

[@guyparris4871]

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!

[@dylan-5287]

In California we have scrub Jay's all over the place and everyone calls them blue Jay's too.

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

​@@dylan-5287 Scrub jays are awesome. I once saw a scrub jay grab a finch that was foraging on the ground, take off with it in it's talons (do jays have talons?), fly straight up in a corkscrew to a height of about thirty feet and then drop the finch, killing it. I have no idea what that finch did to piss that jay off, but it was cool to see.

[@dylan-5287]

@@TestUser-cf4wj they're interesting birds, all the finches and other small birds stay clear of them around here. We've got a pair of scrub Jay's that live in our yard all year long. They made a nest right outside one of our windows last year too. That's gnarly to attack other birds that outright haha.

[@brianSalem541]

@@dylan-5287 that's true in Oregon too

[@MarcMagma]

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

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

I tell

[@robstone9628]

but is it a coincidence?

[@eugeniaamariei8626]

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 👌

[@ecurewitz]

Come here to New England. They are quite common

[@RoccosVideos]

@@ecurewitz Yes, they are. I've been seeing a lot of cardinals lately as well.

[@grayski3324]

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

[@JamesZ32100]

And hangout with a raccoon as a bestfriend 😂

[@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339]

And speaking of that blue jay, he was a s-i-m-p.

[@YuvinTop]

And briefly became a space park worker and fully become an painter

[@amym.4823]

Huh, uh, huh, huh 🤣

[@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!

[@jeffalbillar7625]

I never knew that there was a green Jay. Thank YOU for passing on your knowledge

[@user-nu8ob5vc6s]

What about scrubjays? Not the same genus?

[@jeffalbillar7625]

@@user-nu8ob5vc6s what the heck? Scrub jays? 🤯

[@cfw91491]

Scrub Jay genus is Aphelocoma but they are indeed blue.

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

​@@cfw91491Which is why, on the west coast, they're called bluejays

[@jonbenoit333]

I love these so much. Thanks for the videos

[@Mote.]

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

[@zpirateko2129]

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

[@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339]

Solve by playing punchies for it.

[@ronrothrock7116]

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.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

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).

[@cherylj7460]

Yes, I’ve seen them purposely kick out the extra seeds so that they hit the squirrels on the branch. They turn around and watch the squirrels reactions, then do it again!😂

[@1TakoyakiStore]

@@cherylj7460 That's hilarious! Thank you for sharing. 😂

[@cherylj7460]

@@1TakoyakiStore Sure, I have another story- I have many, as they are interesting characters and don’t miss a thing! But this was a few days ago. It was very early and I didn’t see or hear any birds. I was looking for the lizards. I sat down on an overturned clay pot, just outside the drip line of a shade tree. Splat- poop on my one extended bare foot! Dead center! I looked straight up and there is one blue jay looking down at me, his head cocked very funny. I laughed and he just stared silently. He was the only bird around. I know he was amusing himself. I feed them, squirrels, 4 other bird species, and agama lizards- they are often eating from the same dishes! They get along pretty well, and it’s very comical!😂

[@syrpentina]

I love to see them at my feeders. They have such big perdonalities! They're such clever, beautiful, family-oriented birds 🤗💕

[@timorean320]

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.

[@deltastudioswastaken]

Wow, BlueJay uploaded the same day as this video about Blue Jays. Coincidence? I think not!

[@chrislyons5556]

I’m from Canada and I love the blue jays

[@goofyrulez7914]

I never thought much about Blue Jays (they're not native where I live) until I saw one on The Big Bang Theory. I was really impressed, it's a magnificent bird!

[@sethleoric2598]

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

[@deplatformedcrowprinceluna6339]

But, I prefer raccoons.

[@kanedafx]

You left out the most interesting fact: their feathers aren't actually blue, they are just bent a certain way that makes them appear blue.

[@Nobody-s824]

Yes! technically they are brown and have melanin pigment like humans

[@73Goodfellow]

IMO, if it looks blue, it is blue. 🤷‍♂️

[@Nobody-s824]

@@73Goodfellow but geeky science facts are fun.

[@kanedafx]

@@73Goodfellow I get what you mean, but think about water. It's not blue when you pour it in a glass. It only looks blue in a certain light and at a certain angle. Same thing with blue jay feathers. So I wouldn't say water IS blue, I would just say it looks blue (sometimes).

[@andrewkovnat]

I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays I love blue jays

[@brianSalem541]

so do I so do I so do I so do I so do I so do I

[@natethegreat5968]

Weird that this was uploaded on the same day I certain other channel uploaded. Makes you think

[@lisapop5219]

We have had a pair that set up housekeeping in the bush in our front yard. They are aggressive af! This year, they didn't come back.

[@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.

[@vladkornienko7889]

Ask Rigby.

[@michaelp9707]

Late Winter of 2020/Early 2021 ...I discovered they love Popcorn,popped a few bags for the birds and Blue Jays loved it most along with Juncos.

[@simlucien]

So, simping actually works somewhere? It would be blue jays.

[@melloweyeV]

Ahhhhh! loved the video!

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

Hm. How strange. To be released so close to BlueJay’s own video. What an odd coincidence. Odder still that there seem to be blue feathers scattered about, good sir.

[@mathieuleader8601]

I liked seeing the bluejay taking a dip in the birdbath

[@markgarin6355]

Interesting, I've never seen in the Pacific NW... Lots of stellar jays though.

[@timbobrn856]

Love your work . I’m a big fan of the scrub jay tho. Pet peeve of mine when people call the Californian scrub jay the blue jay, but I can see how they can get them confused . Can’t wait for next history of Italy episode 😬

[@therwfer]

The Blue Jay - 10 out of 10 stars

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

I'm 45 and have lived in western Washington state for most of my life. I have never seen a Blue Jay in the Pacific Northwest. I wonder how often they get that far west? I do see the Stellars Jay all of the time here.

[@Philip_smith88]

Great video. Very informative

[@talontales]

They seem like a larger and smarter version of the Blue Tit (as seen on my channel). Even their face patterns are similar.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

So Mordecai can fool Sandy by mimicking a voice, just so he can steal her stash of food. I think that's pretty smart. However, it seems like consistently sticking to one potential partner (known as "simping") can probably be disadvantageous.

[@friedoysterskins2942]

they are so LOUD. But I love their chirps

[@RafaCB0987]

Really cool

[@mathieuleader8601]

I think the word tenacity sums up the Bluejay quite nicely

[@JiveDadson]

In central California, where I live, we have scrub jays. They look like blue jays wearing brown backpacks. I was lucky to have one befriend me last year. He would come for peanuts when I called him with a saxophone. He got married (lucky girl) and raised two healthy chicks. Their behavior was much as you described for the blue jays. Scrubby, as I called him, brought the family around to teach the young ones how to hide peanuts. I would love to know more about scrub jays. Surely they must be close relatives of blue jays.

[@TestUser-cf4wj]

The two jay species that are common to the PNW are the scrub jay, wich is medium-blue with a grey breast and is a gregarious, often aggressive bird. The scrub jay sometimes immitates the cals of other birds and has been seen attacking and killing smaller birds. The other is the Stellar's jay, wich is seen in this video. The Stellar's jay is usually very shy and mostly avoids contact with people.

[@heinrichmuller7974]

i've got 3 or 4 blue jays that have gotten very friendly with these past 2 summers. they do a certain call outback when i'm exercising, and when i'm downstairs in the front living room they squawk and will fly down onto the window sill and make themselves known. i feed them peanuts and have gotten close to hand feeding one, it's become a little routine, even the neighbours notice it lol _very_ clever birds as clever as they are beautiful, but they're corvid family so i expect nothing less

[@GillamtheGreatest]

i have been attacked by bluejays before. was walking to work and one of their babies had falllen out of the nest and wasnt quite able to fly. i was just passing by but they werent happy about it and they attacked my head. hat protected me though

[@Farb_dk]

I just watched a video a blue jay made about pirates… apparently they are also greedy psychos

[@crispybacon9917]

I am slightly ashamed to say I thought blue jay had posted Edit: he had like 3 minutes earlier

[@Eldrich4291]

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[@whothefoxcares]

Do wiley coyotes know how delicious blue jays are? -- The ACME COMPANY.

[@GeorgMierau]

A BlueJay-channel-style rating at the end of the video would be funny :)

[@MrThatguyuknow]

6:36 - 7:13 This explains so many episode plots in regular show.

[@Azuciea]

We have alot of bluejays where I live and Ive seem them do some pretty mean things to other birds. They really do not like starlings for example.

[@ompwa5382]

Bring back the history of nations series!!! It's been 3 years now...

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

“I’m sorry Ricky I thought you were a blue jay”

[@SquatchStomper]

I always knew that they were smart

[@Mote.]

I often see cardinals here too.

[@ageingviking5587]

They are persistant.

[@J-ge7qe]

Blue jays sit on my roof over a wasp nest. When the wasps pop up over the roof, they get eaten. I love blue jays.

[@barrybarlowe5640]

Blue Jays at our feeders mimic hawk calls.

[@Shaden0040]

the reason why Blue Jays have such intelligence and Jays in general the biggest part of the Corvid family related crows Ravens Etcetera and they are very intelligent species

[@madambrianne]

Do a Documentary video on Valentines Day, St.Patricks Day, St. Nicholas Day, and Easter.

[@amym.4823]

Some of the blue jays around my neighborhood can initiate hawk calls. I wonder if this keeps hawks out of their territory?

[@BuzzFlyBee]

Can you do a video about blue jay economics and job market?

[@SmokeyTreats]

I saw a hungry Blue Jay snatch a baby Sparrow from it's nest one time & began eating it alive as he flew off with it.

[@rafaelmagalhaes1751]

Could you do history of Portugal

[@erichtomanek4739]

Are Blue Jays North America's answer to Australian Magpies?

[@barrybarlowe5640]

It's not so much whether they are brighter, or not, but most birds only perform if they want to.

[@dr.chemical8231]

Forgot I had .25 in from another video early and I was so scared and confused😭😭

[@terrylook7632]

I enjoyed the video, can anyone tell me about the old bicycle?

[@noahkamakeeaina5454]

i live in cali and there is alot of blue jays and they are so loud in the morning but they are so cool idc

[@micahrobbins8353]

Was this uploaded on the wrong channel?

[@smc9108]

I have a couple acres' yard full of blue jays and mockingbirds, needless to say it's a pretty cheeky peanut gallery. They dive bomb my patio doors with pebbles when the feeder is empty and leave roofing nails and various screws from God knows where on my patio table. I think they like me but live in fear of a full blown mutiny, getting pecked to oblivion some day on my tractor.

[@Guitcad1]

What is the deep blue bird at 9:12 behind the cardinal? Is that an indigo bunting?

[@Fireoflearning]

Yes

[@jamesryan360]

Jays are a type of crow, so ...probably

[@nyalgoodatxbox]

I have some information about on a creature in the blood run cave system in Greenbrier County they call it the cave creature like more human the animal it’s got human like legs human type arms but he’s hairless look it up

[@Z0R0VP]

Nah they make a series with a raccoon and go "WOOOOOOHHHHH"

[@benjaminwilson3216]

So a cross breed would be called a Stellar Blue Jay? Regardless, all 3 variants of the bird are all nice to look at

[@stefanschleps8758]

Did you read Jonathon Livingston Seagull?

[@UNUSUALUSERNAME220]

You know how they found out all this info? A Crow told them.

[@edmundthespiffing2920]

I don't know, dude. Benson says Mordecai is pretty stupid.

[@YuvinTop]

Same to Rigby too🦝

[@markschroter2640]

The ones around here don't appear to be anywhere near as smart as crows, magpies or ravens.

[@gregoryrollins59]

Where i live we have steller jays. One comes and says hi every morning. Beautiful bird. It's black and blue, so i named it bluck. I also have a couple of robins that come around, but their not real friendly. So no name for them. Birds are cool, and remember, birds aren't real lol 😆 😂 😮 Peace and Ahev

[@LukeShartWalker]

May the Flush be with you.

[@RestlessRebel]

Mordecai

[@SDGrave]

I just watched his latest video 😂

[@Majorkill675]

So how smart would you say they are compared to, oh idk.. racoons?

[@Pacebeats]

Blue Jay Oakerson

[@sallyton763]

No

[@ehunt7498]

Well judging Modecai from regular show I would say no 😂

[@dandagerman6604]

the moral of the story is that squirrels lie. They lie lie lie like a dog.

[@WavesWatcher1]

I have not yet seen any evidence of it

[@KhaoticDeterminism]

🤔 #2Spirit

[@richardlynch1094]

California Scrub Jay's BEAT Blue Jay's asses! Haha

[@Akren905]

Ive trained about 30 jays out in memramcook nb. I can call them in they knock on windows. Look innthem n call threw open windows n run along the shed roof once they notice im out and about for... PEANUTS LOL

[@BlueBlue_Jay]

I do NOT consent to be put on the internet 😡

[@shaifunnessa7816]

Maratha empire chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj please make video

[@dannykizhner]

Who cares about Blue Jays where’s history of Italy pt.2?!?

[@Les537]

I have a crow couple and a handful of bluejays sharing my space. They are some smart birds and they love those peanuts. Rock on.

[@yulurkinbrah]

i could really crush a cheeseburger right now