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title: "Canada Jay"
description: "Perisoreus canadensis — Uccelli. The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/canada-jay
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Canada Jay

> Perisoreus canadensis — Uccelli. The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae.

- Scientific name: *Perisoreus canadensis*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 23332
- Wikidata: [Q80858](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80858)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8335](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8335)

## Names

- en: Canada Jay
- de: Meisenhäher
- es: Arrendajo Canadiense
- fr: Mésangeai du Canada
- nl: Canadese taigagaai
- pl: Sójka kanadyjska

## Countries with the most observations

US (12278), CA (10015)

## Summary

The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis), also known as the grey jay, gray jay, camp robber, moose bird, gorby, or whisky jack, is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae. It is found in boreal forests of North America, north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona. A fairly large songbird, the Canada jay has pale grey underparts, darker grey upperparts, and a grey-white head with a darker grey nape. It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, a genus more closely related to the magpie genus Cyanopica than to other birds known as jays. The Canada jay itself…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_jay

## Photo

![Canada Jay](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/canada-jay/medium.jpg)

Photo: Braden J. Judson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72968827

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/canada-jay?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).