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Article: COEXISTING WITH JAYS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 6, 1989
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Most people do not like blue jays. They are larger than any
other bird that comes to our one million back-yard feeders in New
England, and generally get to eat whatever they want while the more
modest birds hang around the edges. To put perhaps too much of a
point on it, we tend to regard them as feathered squirrels.
Things only get worse when it comes to blue jays, as they have
a habit of changing their diet to suit the availability of food,
and will shift from sunflower seed to baby birds and bird eggs when
the time comes. For many years, the blue jay was the one native
songbird which hunters were allowed to shoot in the United States,
putting jays in the same class, ...