Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: cgresswe on May 19, 2014, 05:42:51 PM

Title: Juvenile Blue Jay? Hybrid?
Post by: cgresswe on May 19, 2014, 05:42:51 PM

Is this a Juvenile Blue Jay or Hybrid? I found it in my friends backyard in Ridgeway, Ontario, near Fort Erie, Ontario.

Thanks.

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Title: Re: Juvenile Blue Jay? Hybrid?
Post by: Paul O'Toole on May 19, 2014, 05:51:27 PM

Looks like a bluejay that just took a bath.

Title: Re: Juvenile Blue Jay? Hybrid?
Post by: cgresswe on May 19, 2014, 05:55:37 PM

But why is his head all black, and this Blue Jays' head isn't?
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Title: Re: Juvenile Blue Jay? Hybrid?
Post by: Paul O'Toole on May 19, 2014, 10:33:42 PM

Looks like its lost some feathers, could be a molt. Or like you said a juv with feathers no grown in yet in that area.