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The Blue Jay is a familiar and common inhabitant of Canada's southern coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests and urban wooded areas, with a range that reaches from Newfoundland to Alberta. Results from the Breeding Bird Survey indicate that populations have increased moderately since about 1970, but over the most recent decade (2002-2012), the populations have stabilised. There are few conservation concerns for this adaptable species.
Sometimes considered a pest of agricultural crops and a predator of passerine eggs and nestlings, especially in fragmented forests, the Blue Jay shows flexibility and adaptability among human-altered habitats and is unlikely to be threatened by moderate changes to the forest and urban landscape (Tarvin and Woolfenden 1999).
Environment and Climate Change Canada and partners have developed Bird Conservation Region Strategies in each of Canada’s Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs). In these strategies, selected species are identified as priorities for one or more of the following reasons:
Select any of the sub-regions below to view the BCR strategy for additional details.