Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

Blue Jay photographed by Apple
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Blue Jay photographed by Mark Curtis
Springfield · July 14, 2026
Blue Jay photographed by Mark Curtis
Springfield · July 14, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 24M open records.

Records by month. January, 1,635,594 records. February, 1,839,708 records. March, 1,801,765 records. April, 2,675,159 records. May, 3,519,933 records. June, 1,671,600 records. July, 1,339,448 records. August, 1,535,237 records. September, 2,343,153 records. October, 2,396,467 records. November, 1,653,603 records. December, 1,558,656 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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