Canada jay: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Canada jay lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Perisoreus canadensis
Group	Crows, jays & magpies
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Corvidae

Where does the Canada jay live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Canada jay in 2 countries and territories across North America. Wikidata gives its range as: North America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Canada jay endangered?

The Canada jay’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Canada jay?

The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Corvidae, genus Perisoreus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Canada jay

The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae. It is found in boreal forests of North America, north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona. A fairly large songbird, the Canada jay has pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts, and a grey-white head with a darker grey nape. It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, a genus more closely related to the magpie genus Cyanopica than to other birds known as jays. The Canada jay itself has nine recognized subspecies.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Canada jay (revision 1373894385), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q80858 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).