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Blue Jay Imitating Red Shouldered Hawk Call
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2015
- Blue Jay perfectly mimics the call of a Red Shouldered Hawk. Red Shouldered Hawk calls are common in the Backyard, but they are rarely made by real Hawks. Most are fake hawk calls made by impersonating Blue Jays, especially my hand fed Buddy Blue Jay.
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Blue Jays have a special alarm call and head bob when they are trying to alert others and frighten away a Hawk and they also dive bomb them as shown in this clip. There is history between them! There are a number of theories as to why Blue Jays do this, but in my backyard its all about food dominance by just a few Big Jays high on the pecking order - they know exactly what they are doing. Sometimes my trained Blue Jays makes the Hawk call while waiting for a peanut as in this clip and it may be sort of a possessive/territorial call that the guy with the peanut is off limits. They also seem to enjoy getting the squirrels upset by doing this - they clearly have a few steps on the furry mammals. Late in the clip you will see a Mourning Dove relaxing and preening while Blue Jays make Hawk Calls in the forest - Hawks eat Doves in the backyard so this Dove in the open somehow knows not to be alarmed as Hawks do not make any sound when hunting. Listen closely and you'll hear the squirrels making panicky alarm calls as the Jays have them upset. I have a sneaky suspicion my Blue Jays enjoy this. Hawks do not call when hunting, they call mainly to communicate to each other.
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I love it when the jay bounces up and down behind the hawk making those little noises. Lol
Its like hes shooting lasers on him ;)
squeaky gate =)
For a brief second there it has transformed into a mocking jay
R3v3r4nD hunger games reference thank you
He is taunting the hawk
Hawk: *screech*
Blue Jay: *sCReEcH* lmao
Some times I think the Blue Jays imitate hawks just to clear the feeders. Good strategy no doubt. Thank you for a great video.
Joan
Joan Ouellette Thanks, yeah I think it's all about food dominance. The Blue Jays have a few steps on the squirrels and other songbirds!
BB
Joan Ouellette it does...I feed a few ducks once, seen a blue j land on a top branch, did the eagle sound n scared all the ducks away. Then flew down to eat lol
I've seen that happen. The squirrel left the feeder when the jay screamed like a hawk. Jays are geniuses.
They def do around here. There is a tree that all the birds love because it has sprouted tiny little blue berry's they're all eating, plus there are feeders because of grandma who covers her back yard in feed (which attracts a family of 10 female deer at night, and a million squirrels.. right next to our giant trash bin area, thanks grandma), and I thought it was a red tailed hawk screeching but nope, it was a family of 2 blue jays who had come to take over the area like jerks lol.
That’s A Genius Assumption🧠🫡
That Blue Jay has some nerve mocking the Hawk!
Blue Jays, are badasses
My blue Jay's are friendly but fear nothing..
Except the sparrows
They scare them
House sparrows
@@crystalcrii5679 hmm hmm. Agreed
I watched this video a few weeks back, after I realized that a hawk was visiting my property, and I am noticing that I hear the Blue Jay BEFORE I hear, or see the hawk! I am so glad that he's up there, protecting the neighborhood song birds, and doves! I have a new appreciation for brave little Blue Jays, now!
Yes if you hear a Blue Jay carrying on something is usually going down in the yard - they are the sheriffs :-)
HA! That is what I call them; the NJ State troopers.
Its 4 years later, and I just saw that I left this comment when I first started birdwatching! Im still getting great information from the video, I suppose! I was revisiting the imitation that blue Jay's make, hoping that the noise I hear is a Jay, not a red shouldered hawk! It's so wonderful how the birdwatching community truly boosts each other's knowledge about birds, and has been so totally positive, in general!
We have a racer pigeon who stopped by for the last week, he overshot his destination, and we are bringing him home tonight, but it would kill me if this other bird hurt him! I do hope it's a good little neighborhood sheriff blue jay!
@@MyBackyardBirdingor they're crying wolf to get first dibs at the feeder lol
Get some shelled peanuts for more fun watching them and it also brings them back to your little wildlife area. I just scared a hawk away that literally flew up to the feeding stump I was putting food out for. I don't think it noticed me till right about ready to land! Shook my seed filled tub at him to chase him away. He definitely yelled at me. Off to check the video footage!
He was bobbing his head like my Macaw does when his eyes are pinned out and he is super excited or amped up lol
Jason Watson Yeah that head bob is reserved for when they are really fired Up!
Jason Watson he was saying “you can’t touch dis” then flys away
@@MyBackyardBirdingThe younger ones do it alot when 1st visiting my platform feeder 4 peanuts.The hopping and head bobbing that is.Good at mimicking red tailed hawks also on the farm in Arkansas.
These birds are so clever! My Magpie has imitated a car alarm. It was irritating for many people.
mbhsug Many people dislike the Blue Jays but they are extremely intelligent and outgoing!BB
So THAT is why blue jays make that sound!!!!! I didn’t know they were imitating! Amazing
I thought I was crazy when I heard a hawk outside but only saw this little blue bugger hopping around.
They're such sassy, smart little birds, I love them.
I love the dove at the end so cute and chubby!
That Jay has a huge set of balls being that close to the hawk!!
Thanks for posting this. I just saw and heard a Blue Jay imitate our local hawks. I had no idea they were such accomplished imitators.
I came here because I just heard a blue jay imitating red-tailed hawks! I had no idea they did that and i was cracking up because I thought the blue jay was broken! Smart little things.
I was playing hawk sounds in my yard to try and attract the hawk that hangs out at the tower but instead a little blue Jay came and kept looking at me 😂😂😂
Lmao
I'd easily say that Blue Jay has been practicing a lot on its Red Shouldered Hawk call. Its hard to believe a Blue Jay can sound like that! The impersonation is spot-on! The only difference is a slightly lower pitch, but hey, I'm sure they are probably hearing Red Shouldered Hawks as they are flying away and calling at the same time, and the Doppler effect is changing the pitch anyways.
"I was born a blue jay, but I want to be a HAWK!"
The mourning dove is just there, LOL, 😂
I have a Blue Jay that imitates Hawks, too! I have the Merlin app, and I was recording bird sounds with it while watching my favorite blue jay on a tree limb. The Merlin app showed that it was hearing a red-shouldered hawk as well as a Cooper's Hawk, but I was watching the blue jay sing those songs himself. He's always checking the sky as well before he comes down out of the tree for peanuts, so I have named him Hawkeye!
They can do a pretty spot on impression at times. BB
Little rascal, the blue bird always fools me 2 when I'm near the bird feeder❣
A while back my dad and I heard this call really close by. We ran outside to see the hawk.... but found a blue jay in the tree next to the bird feeder. Totally tricked us.
Unbelievable this imitation!
Rüdiger Hartmann They really are extraordinary birds!BB
Peaceful dove at the end.
Duvmasta Yes, the Dove seems to know the Hawk call is bogus :-)
Almost their but this little guy's voice is cracking a lot more than the hawks
I didn't realize that Jays mimicked the calls of other birds. Learn something new every day!
And he probably does the hawk noises when there are peanuts around! More for him!
I’m a volunteer for a raptor center, and I get fooled by Blue Jays regularly. They can sound exactly like a Red-shouldered hawk…
This is what our bluejay does to scare other birds and squirrels away from bird feeder 😆
Bluejay in my yard doing the same. He's what brought me here. Lol
We have Cooper's Hawks in our backyard frequently and I've noticed that squirrels sound the alarm also. If they see a hawk, they climb high in the trees and start screeching like banshees and the birds take cover...
Somehow the Blue Jay did a better hawk impression than the hawk itself!
Thanks for the video. The ugly sounds are very familiar to me. Lol. (Let’s face it; bluejays and hawks have not-so-nice vocalizations).😉 I do get nervous when I hear the hawk nearby; I’ve chased him away before. I don’t want him making lunch out of my birdies or the chipmunks.😣
I just witnessed this type of event this past weekend -- I was at my Mom's house, and I heard what I thought was a red-tailed hawk (we have a bunch of them where I live, so the sound is familiar to me). I went out looking for the "hawk", and (long story short) it turned out to be a big blue jay mimicking the screech of the hawk. Very cool... It's the first time I've seen that, and it's something I won't forget. :-)
It's Mordecai!
Blue Jays just trolling everyone 🤣
We have a pair of red-tailed hawks that live in the next yard over. Jays will annoy the heck out of them and I've even heard them pretending to be hawks.
Once in a while I see just how funny the hawks think that is, as I will find a bunch of bluejay feathers (without the bird attached to them) on the ground.
"Imitate us, will ya? Take that, fake hawk."
The most profound sound I've ever heard❤❤ beautiful😢
The fact he doesn't stop doing it ...gives him away.
I believe that bluejays imitate Hawks for both reasons, to warn of the presence of a hawk and to clear the feeders for themselves. Also sometimes just for the fun of it
Blue jays are very smart as well as mighty! Tiny maybe mighty in numbers and sheer will. They tend to thrive as a family pack, something we could all learn from. They each have their personality and are loyal to a fault, with that you go.. We go mentality
Jays also mate 4 life and I can't distinguish males from females as you about have to be a pro to tell.Lesley the bird nerd also agrees it's hard to distinguish.
I love this film, thanks for sharing it :) The Blue Jays do that in my yard mostly to warn the others there IS a hawk near, and many times the hawk is in a tree hiding waiting for a bird, and what I love about it is the Blue Jays will all gather near the hawk and screech at him to drive him away and to also warn the others. Those jerks who get mad at Blue Jays screeching or imitating hawks would do the same thing if they had a predator trying to eat them.
Awesome. They certainly are notorious for trying to fool you into thinking a hawk is around.
Great footage,
I have some jay-esque hawk-esque chirping/squawking in my backyard right now and using this to try to decipher!
Really wonderful! The blue Jay is amazing! Thank you BB!
They surely are, just incredibly sensitive but very mighty!
Let’s give credit to the borbtacular mourning dove at the end there
Blue Jays are in the Covid family with Ravens, black birds - very, very smart. I always hated them around my feeder because they are bullies. But after reading "Bird Brain" - I really appreciate how intelligent they are. BTW - the little chicadee in N. America are the birds who send warning signs to every other bird that danger is near. When a predator cooper hawk is nearby they tell all birds drop to the ground in the underbrush and take cover. When I walk near the feeders I hear the chicadee telling everyone "take cover, danger is near." Watching a bird feeder over the years makes you understand pecking order.
Chickadees are smart and very friendly and they stay with me year around. They really love safflower seed at my country home in Arkansas. 😊
Beautiful birds and video! Thank you for sharing.
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BB
A true Red-shouldered Hawk fanatic can tell it apart quickly... I know Red-shouldered Hawks and their call really cuts through the air and has so much timbre
At 0:26 - I've seen Blue/Scrub Jay's & mockingbirds attacking Red hawks while they're perched like that. The mockingbirds divebomb the hawks head, but most of the time the hawk isn't even phased or bothered lol
thanks for sharing! I hear this cute bird making calls like this in my neighborhood in Florida. I have a peanut feeder I bought for it but it hasn't figured out how to eat from it. I sometimes drop them on the ground, but squirrels get them too then.
It was totally amazing that I actually witnessed this today. I went outside and kept hearing a hawk.. No hawk to be found!!! I kept looking at where the sound was coming from and it was a blue jay!!!!
+Samantha 1 That's great, yes most of the "hawk sounds" I hear are in fact Blue Jays!
BB
Thank you for posting this video! Now I know which bird keeps making this warning cry. I also saw a bird chasing off a hawk.
That's just what blue jay calls sound like (among their other types of vocalizations). :) I used to always think it was a hawk too, until I started learning bird calls after I became interested in feeding all the little songbird visitors our yard gets.
+Melissa Yes, Blue Jays have such a wide variety of calls and imitations!
i had no idea blue jays would imitate other birds! i love these sounds thank you so much :)
“Hey rigby check out my hawk impression”
cute!!!!! he kinda sounds like a seagull too... awww
We have a bluejay outside, right now, imitating a different sort of hawk (specifically, the one which HUNTS in our gardens, chasing birds through a bosque of Cryptomeria and Rosa Laevigata). We wondered why a hawk would be hanging around in the Rosa Banksiae Albla Plena arbor (which surrounds a patio), and looked outside to find a clever bluejay, looking very pleased with himself. He's still at it, by the way...
So nice to see this! ♥
Amazing!
wow cool , i ran in to a Blue jay in the City there a lot of Sparrows there , i though i could hear a sparrow and was a Blue Jay Imitating a sparrow :) Blue Jays are apparently in the Crow family , and Crow Imitate vary well to can Imitate speech vary well :)
Lovely capture a big thumbs up.
eaglevp Thank you!BB
0:37 hawk was like "wtf was with that guy"
Love Blue Jays, despise RedTails. All the song birds, Doves, Pied Woodpeckers zip by into hiding then you know hawks are close. Thank God for the Corvids, the Ravens and the Crows, as they badger and pester until they eventually run them out of the area.
Just listening to the little birds and squirrels you know or you can predict what's going on like if there's a snake or hawk in the area. If so, then they raise hell. Good little alarms.
Nice content, especially the end where the jay spreads his beautiful blue wings.
Great footage. That's a heckuva zoom.
Thanks!
I just heard this for the first time this morning, a jay was doing this to scare a squirrel off from
The food, I was shocked and thought there was a hawk 😂😮
I've heart them mimic the Red Tail Hawk as well.
Small but mighty!!
what really gets me is when they make a mountain lion sound. I never get used to that
LOVE THEM! WONDERFULLY CLEVER---THEY CRACK ME UP! I JUST SUBSCRIBED. GOOD CAMERA.
Thanks, yes they are smart and they know it!
I've heard them doing cooper's hawks and red-tails as well.
My family rescued a baby blue jay when he was a few days old. Named Gracie, he was released four wks later. Today, more than 4.5 years later, Gracie has 8 broods of babies and we have been (literally) by his side EVERY step of the way. Together we have experienced it all with Gracie and his family. The hawk calls do not scare off other birds/ squirrels at all, but are meant to fool actual hawks and keep them away from the area, as they are territorial. Of course the hawks pair during nesting season, but that typically takes place in a different location. Gracie also makes Hawk calls to see if other Hawks are in the area. If they are then they will often communicate back, giving gracie a heads up to their location. . There is no need for Gracie to make Hawk calls to scare away other birds, since only he comes directly to us. Do you happen to have an unedited video where a blue jay makes a hawk sound and the nearby Birds scatter in fear? I do have several videos of Gracie making Hawk sounds and birds or squirrels in the area remain.
I believe they do this to scare away other birds from food sources and also to mock Mr Hawk!
That blue jay thinks it's a mockingbird.
I saw a hawk in my yard this afternoon, and I couldn't believe how big it was! Beautiful bird, even though he was stalking some of the doves that have been stopping by my yard, recently... I couldn't help but admire him, before he flew away..
Your video, posting, and comments answered some questions for me😃 my yard lit up like this today... I thought it was a falcon, but it sounded an awful lot like the hawk right here! The chickadees, like between 5-10, started BUGGING OUT, all sounding alarm at once, I peeked around the corner of my house, and not 15 feet away was a big bird of prey! I thought that the big bird had a hunting buddy, because I continued to hear that call, the one in your video here, even though I was watching the, "hawk", fly away! I bet it was a Blue Jay that continued calling alarm! I wasn't sure if these predatory birds hunted alone... I really appreciate the beauty of this bird, but I hope that he doesn't make a habit of swinging by... I have tons of song birds, and I fear for them😞
And that Blue Jay in your video is gallant, if I do say so myself!!! Saving the day in your neighborhood! My neighborhood Blue Jays are shy, but I am going to try to attract them, because I am totally impressed by this one's skills!🐦
That jay was like, hey how are ya?
And naturally, the mourning dove is completely unconcerned! 😅
Blue Jays are savages lol
Sometimes I forget Bluejays are corvids but this definitely is the troll corvid behavior LMAOOOO
As my mother says, "Blue Jays are not afraid of the devil."
I must be a Saint as they fly off when I go out but they come back shortly. 😊
I once saw a brave jay stare down a hawk but the hawk didn't seem to care
One afternoon our parrot got some close "fly bys," from the local blue jays in the yard. They made eye contact with each other. For the next month I heard parrot calls coming from the trees.
+EggbornHatchedrotten Blue Jays are quick learners!
Hah that's great!
I have a Bluejay that does that, too! Not sure what type if hawk but he/she certainly has it down pat.
pigeon's like - what are you folks so upset about?! Just chillax.
Glad I saw this video, I thought I was going crazy.
damn blue jays always confusing me and making me think a hawk is around
Blue Jays do this to scare other birds away from the feeders, smart little buggers.
The dove is so cute
Man imagine waking up to a blu jay making that noise outside ur window on the central air fan
~GORGEOUS~ footage :)
BrittanyNicole1990 Thank you Brittany!BB
Bluejay:
Amazing, all for the best grub :)
and the hawk says..shut up man..stop imitating me..let me eat some songbirds..the Blue Jay keeps doing it..you go away dam hawkish..i wont shut up..go away i say...Brave and Beauty those Blue Jays..
CFITOMAHAWK2 The Blue Jays are at another whole level mentally compared to the rest of the Backyard songbirds!
BB
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That is why this great writer said after observing them for years...He does not belong to a church, but That Blue Jay is as human as you and me--Mark Twain
God i hate these birds making them loud noises, but never knew they where so god damn beautiful...
It’s so easy for us bird-lay to only be fascinated with birds that mimic humans without appreciating the literal breathe of the syrinx.
MY blue jays do this! I thought they were mimicking seagulls! Mine do red tailed hawks too!
While Blue Jays take advantage of their skill to access food, more often than not, most small birds work together to defend from predators. They are communicating what kind of threat might be around.
Cool video. You can tell there is a difference in pitch from big to small bird, but they are pretty good imitators.
Beautiful video Thank you
Oh, I've heard all of these calls! They remind me of seagulls. I've heard both the blue jay and the actual hawk versions of these calls- I always assumed they were made by the same bird but some just sounded different.
I've totally seen this for myself and I thought it was a hawk call but it was very confusing for me 😁❤😁
one minute silence for that dove ..she was reacting like there a hawk aroud her