Canada jay

The Canada jay, also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby or whisky jack, is a corvid of the boreal forests of North America, ranging from the Arctic tree line south through the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico and Arizona. It is a fairly large songbird with pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts and a grey white head with a darker nape, placed in the genus Perisoreus, which is more closely related to the magpie genus Cyanopica than to other birds called jays, and nine subspecies are recognized. Jays hold permanent year round territories in coniferous forest, surviving winter on food cached earlier in the year, form monogamous pairs often joined by a young bird from the previous season, and readily take human food, earning the nickname camp robber. The species carries cultural significance for Indigenous peoples across North America, linked to the trickster figure Wisakedjak, and was chosen by an online Canadian Geographic poll in 2016 as Canada's unofficial national bird.