What does the Eurasian Jay eat?
Garrulus glandarius
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Diet overview
Omnivore
How it forages
Highly omnivorous. Diet includes a wide variety of insects (especially caterpillars, beetles), acorns, beech mast, chestnuts, other nuts and seeds, fruits, berries, small mammals (mice, voles), small birds, eggs, nestlings, and carrion. Famous for caching thousands of acorns and other nuts for winter consumption, often burying them individually, which aids in tree dispersal.
When it feeds
Diurnal.
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