Blue jay = Arrendajo azul in Spanish
I ran into a small vocabulary problem with the term “blue jay”, I needed it for a translation and couldn’t find a reliable source documenting how to say it in Spanish. To begin with the blue jay’s habitat is in eastern Canada and United States, so it’s not a very common bird in Spanish-speaking areas. “Jay” is arrendajo in many dictionaries, but I couldn’t find bluejay until I found a Wikipedia article on it. The article states that “arrendajo azul” and “urraca azul” are the names for this bird. In some more research I found that the blue jay is also called Stellar’s Jay* or Arendajo de Stellar en español. I’m liking Wikipedia more and more as a source of fairly reliable information.
* I stand corrected, the Blue jay and Stellar’s jay are different varieties as Kristine points out in the comments.
