The Blue Jay Bird

The black-throated jay is a well-favored bird, more striking in appearance even than the jay of England (G. glandarius). Its crested head is black. Its back is a beautiful French grey, its wings are black and white with a bar of the peculiar shade of blue which is characteristic of the jay class and so rarely seen in nature or art. Across this blue bar run thin black transverse lines. The tail is of the same blue with similar black cross-bars, and each plumage is tipped with white. The throat is black, with short white lines on it. The legs are pinkish slaty, and the bill is slate bleached in some individuals, and almost white in others. The size of this jay is the same as that of our familiar English one. Black-throated jays go about in flocks.  This is a characteristic of a great many Himalayan birds. Discover just how easily you can fall in Love with Asian Women by visiting Asian Dating Online.

Probably the bulk of the common birds of these mountains lead a sociable existence, like that of the “seven sisters” of the plains. A man may walk for half-an-hour through a Himalayan wood without seeing a bird or hearing any bird-sound save the remote scream of a kite or the raucous voice of the black crow; then on the spur of the moment he comes upon rather a congregation of birds, a flock of a hundred or more noisy laughing-thrushes, or count s of cheeping white-eyes and tits, or it may be a flock of rowdy black bulbuls. All the birds of the wood seem to be collected in one place. This flocking of the birds in the hills must, I think, be accounted for by the fact that birds are by nature sociable creatures, and that food is particularly abundant. In a bundle wood every tree offers either insect or vegetable food, so that a large number of birds can live in company without fear of starving each other out. In the plains food is less abundant, hence most birds that go there are able to pander their affectionateness for each other’s society only at roosting time; during the day they are obliged to separate, in order to find the wherewithal to feed upon. Discover just how easily you can fall in Love with Asian Women by visiting Asian Dating Online.

Like all sociable birds, the black-throated jay is very noisy. Birds have a terminology of a kind, a language composed entirely of interjections, a language in which only the simplest emotionsfear, joy, famish, and maternal carecan be expressed. Now, when a considerable flock of birds is wandering through a dense forest, it is visible that the individuals which compose it would be very liable to lose touch with one another had they no means of informing one another of their whereabouts. The result is that such a means has been developed. Every bird, whose habit it is to go about in company, has the habit of continually uttering some kind of call or cry. It probably does this unconsciously, without being aware that it is devising any sound. Discover just how easily you can fall in Love with Asian Women by visiting Asian Dating Online.

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