Gray jay — not our national bird after all. Yet.

The gray jay won’t be our national bird after all. No bird will be. We’re not going to have one, at least not yet.
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society ran a two-year National Bird Project, inviting the public to vote for their favourites. The winner: The gray jay, a clever and sometimes friendly inhabitant of all provinces and territories.
The Society and its magazine, Canadian Geographic, had no official role in choosing a national symbol but they hoped the federal government wo