Siberian Jay
The Siberian Jay is noticeably smaller, slighter and proportionately longer-tailed than the Jay with a much shorter and more pointed bill. It is the smallest and most delicate of the Western Palearctic crows and is rather drab brown-grey with rufous-chestnut near the wing-bend and on under wing coverts, rump and sides of tail which set the bird “on fire” in flight.
The Siberian Jay is a widespread and highly sedentary resident in Fennoscandia and Russia with Europe accounting for less than half of its global range. It breeds across the higher latitudes of the Western Palearctic and is predominantly at all seasons a bird of coniferous forest, mainly dense stands of forest unmodified by man rather than open growth.
The Siberian Jay contrasts with the Jay in a lack of fear of man, readily attaching itself to human travellers and their living quarters, but this has little effect on choice of habitat since its normal range is largely uninhabited by people.
Date: 28th June 2019
Location: Neljan Tuulen Tupa near Kaamanen, Lappi, Finland
The Siberian Jay is a widespread and highly sedentary resident in Fennoscandia and Russia with Europe accounting for less than half of its global range. It breeds across the higher latitudes of the Western Palearctic and is predominantly at all seasons a bird of coniferous forest, mainly dense stands of forest unmodified by man rather than open growth.
The Siberian Jay contrasts with the Jay in a lack of fear of man, readily attaching itself to human travellers and their living quarters, but this has little effect on choice of habitat since its normal range is largely uninhabited by people.
Date: 28th June 2019
Location: Neljan Tuulen Tupa near Kaamanen, Lappi, Finland
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