Altho their apparel is entirely different in color from other Jays, there is little variance in habits of GREEN JAYS. Raising chickens or gathering the eggs is a matter of constant vigilance by the farmer within the domain of these thieves.
A hen which steals her nest outside the henhouse never raises any chicks, for the Green Jays understand what her egg-laying cackle means and descend upon the booty at once.
The robber breaks the shell, inserts its bill, stirs the contents vigorously, the thick liquid is drawn up, head thrown back and near-omelet allowed to gurgle down the throat.
NEST: well concealed in dense thickets, built of thorny twigs, lined with grass and hair.
EGGS: 4–7; green or buffy white, heavily spotted at large end with brown and lavender.
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
A 20-foot tree distributed on shores of Mataguda Bay, Texas.