Jay

Name: Jay

Scientific name: Garrulax glandarius

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 30

What are nature stars?

About: A small, colourful crow, about 35cm long. Jays are mainly pink, with a black tail, black moustache and black and white wings with a blue patch on the wings. Jays are birds of woodland, parks and gardens.

How to identify: A brightly coloured crow, unmistakeable

Where: Widespread, although absent from the north of Scotland

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 50
• Agility: 40
• Rarity: 30
• Cute factor: 30
• Traveller: 20

Fantastic fact: Jays collect acorns in the autumn, burying them around their territory to store them for winter. Many of them get forgotten, and turn into oak trees.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc