About the same size as a robin. Recognizeable by snowy white breast and chin, dark beak, and gray back of the head and back, tail, and wings. Listed as a mountain species in my bird guide, sited at the top of mt si, 4100ft elevation
Apparently West Coast grey jays look like overgrown chickadees. I thought this was a shrike at first.
The Gray Jay, Perisoreus canadensis, 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...
