Steller's jay

American  

[stel-erz] / ˈstɛl ərz /

noun

1. a common jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, of western North America, having blackish-brown and dusky-blue plumage.

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Etymology

Origin of Steller's jay

1820–30, after George W. Steller (1709–46), German naturalist

Example Sentences

Further on, she discovered a Steller’s jay.

From Seattle Times

Today, it showed, he had spotted a Steller’s jay and a crow.

From Washington Post

Some, like the carlottae subspecies of the darkly coloured Steller’s jay, underscore the fact that while much of the country was blanketed by glaciers 10,000 years ago, other pockets remained ice-free, allowing species to thrive and become genetically distinct from landlocked counterparts.

From The Guardian

It was a once-in-a-morning foray onto my deck, and my photographic quarry was a male Steller’s jay: a common bird around my home near Lake Tahoe.

From Washington Post

Yet each sighting of another species still seems to thrill him, whether that creeper, or a common Steller’s jay or a ruby-crowned kinglet.

From Seattle Times