The blue jay bird is famous for its brilliant blue feathers, but these feathers are not blue. Unlike most other birds, these birds lack blue pigments in their plumage. Blue is not a pigment but an ...

Blue jays are bright blue on top, white or light gray underneath, and have black and white bars on their wings and tail ...

I seem to have become a bird watcher – a delightful pastime ... I learnt the surprising fact that the jay’s feather isn’t actually blue ! There is no pigment, the structure of the feather ...

The bird’s flight is strong and steady, with wings rarely flexed above horizontal. Polytypic. Length 11.5". A nearly unmistakable dark blue, black-crested jay with variable white or blue ...