Pinyon Jay - A Colorful Bird of The American West. I took these pictures at my former home in rural New Mexico in the Northern Pecos River Valley, known to locals as El Valle. Pinyon jays prefer pinyon-juniper woodlands and ponderosa pine forests. Pinyon jays interact in a mutual relationship with the pinyon. Pinyon trees provide pinyon jays with food, nesting and roosting sites, and breeding stimuli. In turn Pinyon jays influence seed dispersal, establishment, and genetic structure of pinyon populations. **************************************** #Birds #birdsofinstagram #AmericanWest #Ornithology #PecosRiver #PecosRiverValley #ElValle #NorthCentralNewMexico #NewMexico #BirdsOfAmericanWest #PinyonJay #Pinyons #PinyonPine #PinyonTree #LandOfEnchantment (at El Valle, New Mexico)
