‘eurasian jay‘
(‘garrulus glandarius‘)
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(‘jays’ are several species of [medium-sized / usually colorful / usually ‘noisy’] passerine birds in the crow family ‘corvidae’)
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(the names jay + magpie are somewhat inter-changeable…)
(…and the ‘evolutionary relationships’ are rather complex)
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(for example, the ‘eurasian magpie’ seems more closely related to the ‘eurasian jay’ than to the ‘oriental blue/green magpies’…)
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(…whereas the ‘blue jay’ is not closely related to either)
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