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Blue Jays have dark gray legs and feet, light gray to white breast feathers, and a blue crest on top of their head. Their wings are blue with white and black lines crossing horizontally and a blue tail with black bars on top and white bars underneath. They grow to be about 10-11 inches in length. The male and female look indentical to each other. [http:// | Blue Jays have dark gray legs and feet, light gray to white breast feathers, and a blue crest on top of their head. Their wings are blue with white and black lines crossing horizontally and a blue tail with black bars on top and white bars underneath. Their eyes, feet, and beak are black. They grow to be about 10-11 inches in length. [http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Bluejayprintout.shtml]The male and female look indentical to each other except the male is lsightly larger. [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cyanocitta_cristata.html] | ||
The young birds look close to the adults except that they are | The young birds look close to the adults except that they are lighter in color: their blue feathers are more gray and their black feathers are more brown. [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Blue_Jay_dtl.html] | ||
== Reproduction == | == Reproduction == | ||
