Green Jay Sunning

by Charlene Adler

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Green Jay Sunning

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Charlene Adler

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This photograph was taken at the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge Center near Los Fresnos, Texas. Always a treat to watch the variety of birds eating and bathing. This Green Jay was posing for me while I watched.

A brilliant green, yellow, and blue jay of the tropics whose range barely stretches to southern Texas, the Green Jay is a noisy, colorful delight. The birds travel in conspicuous family flocks through brushlands and forests, seeking insects, small vertebrates, and fruit to eat. Like other jays and crows, this species is an incredibly versatile forager equally comfortable at picking, gleaning, pouncing, and even flycatching. During the breeding season, from April through June, these garrulous birds settle down and become a bit quieter.
Green Jays, like the more familiar Blue Jays, are excellent mimics. In Texas, they may imitate the call of various hawks to frighten away other bird species (such as Plain Chachalacas) from food they want to eat.

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The 98,000-acre refuge is located almost entirely in Cameron County, Texas, although a very small part of its northernmost point extends into southern Willacy County.

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