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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)

松鴉（學名：Garrulus glandarius），又名樫鳥、橿鳥，是一種廣泛分布於北半球歐亞大陸的鴉科動物，包括西歐大部分地區，至非洲的東北部，以至亞洲的東海岸以及東南亞等地均有分布。正因為分佈如此廣泛，因此不同地區的亞種往往出現極大的變異，特別是當它們的分佈地是相距極遠的時候，差異更大。在歐洲，松鴉也常被簡稱為jay。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Maximum lifespan
18 years
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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
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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
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  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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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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