The Eurasian Jay
My office has an outlook on our back garden so I tend to know most birds that visit it. Only twice before did we get a visit from a Jay, and both times I was not ready with my camera, and when I got my camera it left. Today I was lucky that this Jay's curiousity for a brief second took over his natural shyness. Perhaps the fresh seeds I put out have something to do with it :)
The Eurasian Jay is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia. Across its vast range, several very distinct racial forms have evolved to look very different from each other, especially when forms at the extremes of its range are compared.
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