The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), described by Linnaeus in 1758, was portrayed in Vol. I of Edward Donovan’s The Natural History of British Birds, a multi-volume work published from 1794-1819 with his etched or engraved and hand-colored illustrations. A number of “racial types” and 33 sub-species occur across Western Europe, NW Africa, India, and Asia. Often credited for its part in spreading oaks, particularly the “English oak,” Quercus robur, across Great Britain and the rest of Europe, it can bury 11,000 acorns a year, inevitably forgetting some, to foster new forests.