• Enjoying the Mississippi River

    Mississippi

    National River & Recreation Area Minnesota

Blue Jay

Blue Jay
 
The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) has many possible habitats. These include buildings, bridges, shrubs, small trees, feeders, overgrown fields, and forests. The blue jay always travels in pairs and sometimes in groups. Its diet consists mainly of insects, seeds, nuts, small amphibians, and invertebrates. Sometimes it has even been known to eat the eggs and young of other birds!

Did You Know?

Headwaters of the Mississippi

The Mississippi River is approximately three feet deep at its headwaters at Lake Itasca and has an average surface speed of 1.2 miles per hour.