๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue Jay live?

Cyanocitta cristata has 24,083,169 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1816 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Blue Jay
Blue Jay โ€” Photo: Rhododendrites ยท CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesCorvidaeCyanocitta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 20,616,625
Canada 3,465,488
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1,023
United Kingdom 10
Costa Rica 2
Spain 2
Greece 2
Puerto Rico 2
Bermuda 1
France 1
Mexico 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.