Do blue jays eat baby birds?

Baby blue jays eat the same diets as their parents and eat whatever food their parents bring them. Both parents feed the baby blue jays, and the babies are totally dependent on their parents for... ... A: Baby birds eat insects provided by their parents in their early days, although this diet changes as baby birds get older. read more

Baby blue jays eat the same diets as their parents and eat whatever food their parents bring them. Both parents feed the baby blue jays, and the babies are totally dependent on their parents for about the first six weeks after hatching. read more

The Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is actually a member of the Crow (Corvidae) family. All crows eat meat, some more than others. Although Blue Jays eat about 3 times as much plant matter as it does meat, a large part of their diet is made up of other animals such as mice, fish, bats and other small birds. read more

Blue jays share a characteristic with crows, they will eat just about anything. They are scavengers, they eat other bird eggs as well. So eating other bird young is not so difficult to believe. read more