Garrulus glandarius · Irish: Scréachóg Choille
A shy woodland corvid in pinkish-brown with a flash of electric blue.
Habitat: Woodland and mature parks and gardens with oak trees. | Season: All year
Shy, often only glimpsed in flight; famous for burying acorns in autumn, helping oaks spread. Jay sightings in Irish gardens have been rising in recent years.
A single Jay can bury several thousand acorns in a good autumn as a winter larder; the ones it never digs up often sprout, making the Jay an accidental planter of oak woods.
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