Wiktionary
alt. 1 A mostly gray bird, ''Perisoreus canadensis'', that inhabits coniferous forests of North America. 2 Any bird of the genus ''Perisoreus''. n. 1 A mostly gray bird, ''Perisoreus canadensis'', that inhabits coniferous forests of North America. 2 Any bird of the genus ''Perisoreus''.
WordNet
n. gray jay of northern North America with black-capped head and no crest; noted for boldness in thievery [syn: Canada jay, camp robber, whisker jack, Perisoreus canadensis]
Wikipedia
The gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also grey jay, Canada jay or whiskey jack, is a member of the crow and jay family ( Corvidae) found in the boreal forests across North America north to the tree-line and in subalpine forests of the Rocky Mountains south to New Mexico and Arizona. It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Siberian jay, P. infaustus, found from Norway to eastern Russia and the Sichuan jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan. All three species store food and live year-round on permanent territories in coniferous forests.
Usage examples of "gray jay".
The movement startled a large gray jay who had been pulling hairs out of my head, and he shot Lip into a ricarbv ' eching hysterically.
A gray jay scolded from the branches of an aspen tree and a mallard swam in and out of the pilings with her downy brood scuttling along in her wake.