Pinyon Jays

by Barry Kent MacKay

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Price

$400

Dimensions

16.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Pinyon Jays

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Compressed Hardboard

Description

The Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) is one of only two jay species (the other found in southeast Asia and Borneo) that have no tufts of feathers over the nostrils, otherwise a characteristic of the family, which also includes crows, magpies and ravens, and rooks, which also lacks the nasal feather tufts. Pinyon Jays are essentially endemic to the lower forty-eight U.S. states, but only those that are west of the prairies and east of the Rockies. Nowhere do they normally reach coastal regions and are therefore quintessentially birds of the rugged, dry foothills and low mountains, mesas, pine and juniper-studded highlands and rocky badlands I so love to visit in the interior western U.S. The Pinyon Jay can recall where it has stored huge numbers of seeds and nuts (including the pinyon nuts that they so enjoy eating) and can retrieve them a long time later. They are a drab gray-blue, a very soft and pleasing colour, becoming quite bright on the head, especially toward the face. Their straight beaks remind me of another Corvid, the nutcracker, more than other jays, and like nutcrackers they tend to strut and walk about on the ground; other jays tend to take long hops. Their tails are short, unlike tails of other jays. They are highly social, seen in flocks even while breeding, with the flocks remaining together through the seasons, and pairs staying attached, within the “home flock” even when not breeding. The painting is in acrylics on compressed hardboard, is approximately life size and is 12 by 16 inches. $400.00

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