It will become official in July.
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/opin ... nada-jay-/Although disappointed, Canadian ornithologists failed to protest the loss of one of the few bird names that included a reference to our great nation. But that all changed when Dan Strickland, former chief park naturalist in Algonquin Park and gray jay guru, discovered that there was no basis for the change in name for a species he has studied for nearly 50 years. Dan’s tenacity in tracking down the history of the change and lobbying the AOS to restore the bird’s name back to its original are worthy of a book.
Although the decision of the AOS won’t be officially released until July, I’ve heard through the grapevine that the vote on the joint proposal put forward by Dan Strickland and American ornithologist Carla Cicero was nine to one in favour of changing the name of gray jay back to Canada jay.
