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blue-gray



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Take the mountain plover, a short-grass prairie native about the size of a bluejay, which has declined by 80% since the 1960s.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 23, 2022

Regular Show The kooky animated comedy about a bluejay and a raccoon offers its own Christmas episode.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2016

It’s like you hear a bird chirping, you don’t say, ‘That’s a bluejay, this one is a crow.’

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2016

"I don't know how this got to Syracuse, but in mid-western slang a jay was a person from the country who was an empty-headed chatterbox, like a bluejay," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2014

The cry of a kingfisher and the scream of a bluejay blended perfectly with the drumlike beat.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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