Western Scrub Jay invades my apartment

I've had many parrots and smart birds in my day but Bob beats them all!:)

This is a wild scrub jay who flies into my apartment looking for peanuts every morning. He is welcome to go in and out as he pleases.

During the 19th century there arose the belief that these were the "most advanced" birds, based upon the belief that Darwinian evolution brings "progress." In such a classification the "most intelligent" of birds were listed last reflecting their position "atop the pyramid." Modern biologists reject the concept of hierarchical "progress" in evolution (the essays of Stephen Jay Gould are particularly good in showing this), so more recent taxonomies place corvids somewhere in the middle of the passerines. They are the largest "songbirds" on earth.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Scrub
• jay
• blue
• tame
• wildlife
• monterey
• bird
• wild

[6V92TA]

he wants to check his email....

[boscoitalics]

aww so cute! thought that was your pet bird!

[irvinemofia]

the first bird i ever shot was one of these

[Sondakhan]

Anybody who thinks these are the most annoying birds ever has clearly never experienced magpies.

[guyNbluejeans]

Cute.

[monoham1]

@Hakmedd hahaha in 100 years they go from the most advanced birds, to the most annoying birds...

[Hakmedd]

@TheBlitz1 They are VERY annoying birds.

[Hakmedd]

Nice video! But yeah, these are the most annoying birds ever. I can hear them outside my window right now, arghhhhhhhh.

[TheBlitz1]

also the most annoying bird in the world

CHAAYEK CHAAYEK

SHREK SHREK SHREK SHREK SHREK SHREK

[PrayerWarrior4Him]

A few years ago, my neighbors raised an orphaned scrub jay chick. They named him Squakums :P He was soo cool! He would land on people's shoulders and eat food from their hands. I haven't seen him in years. I miss the silly bird :-(