MEXICAN OR GRAY BRESTED JAY
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MEXICAN OR GRAY BRESTED JAY
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Jay
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Map & range not to any scale nor is it absolute.
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These images were take in Madera Canyon, Greenvally Arizona.
Note the lack of a bib as in the Scrub-jay.
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The bird books say; Arizona juveniles retains pale bill post juvenile molt.
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New images as of 10/09/05
Photographed at
Mary Jo Ballator's B&B
5255 Spring Road
Hereford, Arizona 85615-9029
Phone: 520-378-0773
Mexican Jay refereed to as an Arizona Jay in Sibley's book
I am showing these because they show the yellow bill. It takes the
Arizona Jays as much as 2 or more years to lose the yellow on their bill.
This would be an adult, there's no yellow on its bill.
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The book says its yellow on the bill, however this image shows it as a pale white or pinkish color.
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I have tried to show as many bill views as I can.
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Finally I was able to show the under side of the bill.
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I don't know what I am trying to show here, maybe the back side of the head, why I don't know.
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Well Mr. Jay, thank you for posing for us.
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A few more Jay photos taken while I was in Madera Canyon 04/2006
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