Garrulus glandarius
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on Brian Small's illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a species of passerine bird in the family Corvidae. It has pinkish brown plumage with a black stripe on each side of a whitish throat, a bright blue panel on the upper wing and a black tail. The Eurasian jay is a woodland bird that occurs over a vast region from western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian subcontinent and farther to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia. Across this vast range, several distinct racial forms have evolved which look different from each other, especially when comparing forms at the extremes of its range.
The Eurasian jay was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Corvus glandarius. Linnaeus specified the locality as "Europa" but this was restricted to Sweden by Ernst Hartert in 1903. The Eurasian jay is now one of three species placed in the genus Garrulus that was established in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The genus name Garrulus is a Latin word meaning "chattering", "babbling" or "noisy". The specific epithet glandarius is Latin meaning... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walsrode World Bird Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 2 | domain of the caves of Han | 🇧🇪 Belgium | |
| 3 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Дельфинарий в Сочи-парке | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 5 | Seville Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Paphos Zoo | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | |
| 7 | Tabor Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 8 | Kuala Lumpur Bird Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 9 | Budakeszi Game Preserve | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 10 | Zoopark Limpopo | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 11 | Santillana Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Tiggywinkles Wildlife Teaching Hospital | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 13 | Castellar Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 14 | Minizoo Malá Chuchle | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 15 | Bird Kingdom | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 16 | Дельфинарий "Сочи Парк" | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 17 | River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 18 | Дельфинарий | 🇷🇺 Russia |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Eurasian Jay sighting in Cologne on a given day, based on 202 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 18th most-seen of the 89 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–March and October–November
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Eurasian Jay in Cologne on a given day, against about 20% in May and August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eurasian Jay sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
15th of 70
Of the 70 cities where we can rate Eurasian Jay sightings, Cologne ranks 15th at about 40%. The best odds are in Jerusalem (Israel, about 80%), Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 80%) and Sofia (Bulgaria, about 80%).
Same family: Corvidae
The closest relatives of the Eurasian Jay that you can see in Cologne (family Corvidae, Crows, Jays, and Magpies) are Carrion Crow (about 80%), Eurasian Magpie (about 70%) and Eurasian Jackdaw (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eurasian Jay is recorded against all the birds logged in Cologne (202 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
