Garrulus glandarius
Silhouette: Martin Bulla, based on Brian Small's illustration · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% 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 Gauja National Park on a given day, based on 238 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 18th most-seen of the 124 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Eurasian Jay in Gauja National Park on a given day, against about 10% in June, the lowest month.
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.
10th of 31
Of the 31 parks where we can rate Eurasian Jay sightings, Gauja National Park ranks 10th at about 40%. The best odds are in Białowieża National Park (Poland, about 60%), Nikko National Park (Japan, about 50%) and Aigüestortes National Park (Spain, about 50%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Corvidae
The closest relatives of the Eurasian Jay that you can see in Gauja National Park (family Corvidae, Crows, Jays, and Magpies) are Hooded Crow (about 90%), Eurasian Jackdaw (about 80%) and Eurasian Magpie (about 70%), 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 Gauja National Park (238 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
