hi ...

I'm aware of Stellers Jays mimicing other sounds and have actually
heard and watched one screeching like an eagle and chattering like a
squirrel ... however I am wondering if Western Scrub Jays do this ???
... we've been hearing a hawk screeching every morning and this
morning it was coming from our backyard ... the only bird we saw was
a Western Scrub Jay, however we were not able to see if it was the
screecher or not ... I searched through old Tweeters and OBOL
archives and nothing popped up on my search words, plus I did a
google search on mimcry and Scrub Jays ... nothing I found at the
obvious sources ... so, OBOL and Tweeters --- is mimcry in Scrub Jays
too ??? ... is it perhaps common in ALL Jays ???

thanks,
Lyn





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