Jay Z Beyonce Maria Shriver Coachella Photo

Blue jays are known for their intelligence and complex social systems with tight family bonds. Their fondness for acorns is credited with helping spread oak trees after the last glacial period. The meaning of jay is a predominantly fawn-colored old world bird (garrulus glandarius) of the crow family with a black-and-white crest and wings marked with black, white, and blue.

Although the term jay carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few. Jays are medium-sized, colorful, and noisy birds that belong to the crow family, corvidae. There are about 30 to 45 species of jays globally, and 12 of these can be found in north america.