Colourful crow
A bird commonly mistaken by many people is the jay. It's almost as if it's too colourful to be a British bird. But if you see pink, stripes, flashes of blue and white, a grating squawk and a droopy moustache, it's most definitely a jay, not - as some mistakenly believe - a hoopoe. Jays are members of the crow family and as such they are partial to carrion, but these colourful birds do fulfil an important role: by collecting acorns and burying them, oak forests can continue to grow.
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