A Black-Throated Magpie Jay in Dallas Today

I’ve been enjoying the bird life we have around our new property in Dallas in Lower Greenville.

We’ve got some beautiful cardinals with young, blue jays, cute, little sparrows and miscellaneous brown birds I haven’t completely identified yet.

However, this morning I thought I saw a blue jay in the tree from our kitchen window.

I kept watching it and low and behold, it wasn’t shadows on his blue color. He was a grey, black and white jay with a long tail!

Quickly, I ran to get my camera and when I returned to the window, he was gone.

I looked all over online for different types of jays in our area that may look like this and what I found was the Black-Throated Magpie Jay.

Why is this so interesting?
Because their range is Northwestern Mexico.

This means, either I’ve found a “rogue” jay or they’ve been expanding their habitat, for whatever reason.

What’s marvelous is that this is a species that isn’t endangered (yet)!

Either way, it was pretty exciting and I hope I see him again around here, so I can snap a photograph.

Keep your eyes to the trees because you’ll never know what you may find!

Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Calocitta
Species: C. colliei

* For more information on the black-throated magpie jay, check out Wiki.

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I hope you enjoyed this North American Bird post on Exotic Animal Lover! Until next time…

Live Exotically,

Kimberly Edwards

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