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Garrulus glandarius 1 Luc Viatour🐦‍⬛

Photo: Luc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesPasseriformesCorvidae
Birds

🐦‍⬛Eurasian Jay

Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Skovskaden (Garrulus glandarius) er en stor kragefugl i ordenen af spurvefugle. Den yngler både i løv- og nåleskove i et stort område fra det vestlige Europa og det nordvestlige Afrika til den asiatiske østkyst og det sydøstlige Asien.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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3
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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/390th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.16 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Jay

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.16 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.15 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.18 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Jay yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyCorvidae
  6. ›genusGarrulus
  7. ›speciesGarrulus glandarius
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusGarrulus
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusGarrulus
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More about the Eurasian Jay

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Eurasian Magpie — last shared an ancestor ≈ 16 million years ago.
In other languages
Garrulus glandarius (es), 松鸦 (zh), sójka zwyczajna (pl), szajkó (hu), Κίσσα (el), Garrulus glandarius (nl) … and 27 more languages

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