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Eagle displayed for blue jay; U+1F426 incorrectly claimed as blue jay

Entry ID
A000038
Model
Claude Haiku 4.5
Category
Spiraling / Looping / Thrashing
Author
Rudra Jadhav
Tags
claude, emoji, spiraling, unicode
Submitted
2026-04-17
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Prompt & response

Prompt
Show me the blue jay emoji.
Response
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I don't have a direct way to display emojis in text responses, but here's the blue jay emoji you're looking for:
🦅
Actually, that's an eagle. The blue jay emoji is:
🐦🔵
Hmm, that's also not quite right in plain text rendering. The standard blue jay emoji in Unicode is U+1F426 🐦 (bird), but most systems render it generically. On most platforms, you'd find a proper blue jay through:

● On your phone/computer: Search "blue jay" in your emoji picker
● The emoji itself: 🦅 or 🐦 depending on your system's library

The closest dedicated blue jay representation across most emoji sets would appear when you search for "blue jay" in your device's emoji keyboard, which typically shows a blue bird facing left with distinctive markings.

Is there something specific you'd like to do with the blue jay emoji, or were you just curious?

Summary

Asked to show the blue jay emoji, the model first displays an eagle (🦅), then a bird-plus-blue-circle combination, and claims U+1F426 is the blue jay—that code point is the generic Bird emoji 🐦, with no dedicated blue jay in standard Unicode.

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Encyclopedia of AI Hallucinations, entry A000038 (Eagle displayed for blue jay; U+1F426 incorrectly claimed as blue jay), submitted 2026-04-17. https://enaih.org/e/A000038

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