A fucking Gray Jay!?
That's what many Canadians are saying days after a controversial decision to name the flapping thing as Canada's top bird by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society despite it finishing THIRD in a public opinion poll. They plan on presenting their decision to Parliament in the hopes the government will officially declare the bird, also known as a Whiskey Jack, as Canada's national bird next year as part of our 150th anniversary.
The Gray Jay beat out such iconic stalwarts as the Common Loon, who led the popular vote and lends it's name to our damn dollar; the Snowy Owl, who is a bad ass mofo and...well....snow (it's Canada!); and the Canada Goose, who despite being a flying sack of shit and least shares a name with us.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...nadian-geographic-rom-ornithologist-1.3856361
That's what many Canadians are saying days after a controversial decision to name the flapping thing as Canada's top bird by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society despite it finishing THIRD in a public opinion poll. They plan on presenting their decision to Parliament in the hopes the government will officially declare the bird, also known as a Whiskey Jack, as Canada's national bird next year as part of our 150th anniversary.
The Gray Jay beat out such iconic stalwarts as the Common Loon, who led the popular vote and lends it's name to our damn dollar; the Snowy Owl, who is a bad ass mofo and...well....snow (it's Canada!); and the Canada Goose, who despite being a flying sack of shit and least shares a name with us.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...nadian-geographic-rom-ornithologist-1.3856361
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