Thanks everyone for this identification as a Steller's Jay.
I suspect the author of the video just put together all the footage he could
find of these type of boulders and this segment happened to be from western US,
even though the main subject was an area in southern Rumania!
John Leonard
> On 1 Apr 2017, at 4:25 AM, Gary Davidson <> wrote:
>
> Definitely a Steller's Jay, the question is, how did it get to Europe. This
> bird lives only on the west coast of North America, not a likely vagrant that
> far east! It is an extremely rare bird anywhere in the eastern half of NA.
> Gary
>
>
> From: calyptorhynchus . <>
> To: "" <>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 1:49 AM
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] mystery bird on YouTube
>
> 1.07 minutes into this video on Trovants (a peculiar form of sandstone
> boulders found in Rumania), there is an appearance of a bird I can't
> identify. I would say it definitely isn't a European bird and looks more
> like a S American sub-oscine.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB8Jq26dw6k
>
> A screen-capture is here:
>
> www.jleonard.net/mysterybird.jpg
>
> But you might get more detail by watching the video.
>
> cheers
>
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> John Leonard
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