The Florida Scrub-Jay Trail at B.B. Brown's Gardens is located in Clermont. The nature preserve is open to the public from Saturday to Wednesday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission is free.

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Florida Scrub Jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA, February 2017. By Kirsty Nadine via iStock for WMNF News. Several environmental groups have ...

The Florida scrub jay’s ancestors, along with 10 other bird species, arrived from the American West around 2 million years ago. Of these, only the ancestor of the burrowing owl and Florida scrub ...

Over the three-day period, Jay Watch bird counters get an accurate picture of how many total scrub jays, juveniles and families live at the site. That information is then passed on to land managers.

Scrub jays had consistently been present at the preserve from 2012 to 2020, when surveyors spotted an average of two scrub jay families per year, with a peak of three groups in 2015. But from 2021 ...

California scrub jays are a joy to watch. They are confident, inquisitive, animated, thoughtful, vocal and can authentically mimic other birds. They’ve been observed imitating the calls of red ...

Amy Tan: How I lured birds into my yard and (tried to) befriend them From Tan’s new book, ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles,’ drawings and observations about attracting and befriending birds ...

A Scrub Jay which on the endangered species list, sits on a branch in the Halpata Tastanaki Preserve, part of the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Friday morning April 10, 2015 in ...

The scrub jay was listed as a Threatened species by the federal Endangered Species Act in 1987, and over the next decade Florida birders, environmentalists, and school children rallied to have its ...

The appearances of male and female scrub-jays are similar, while the dusky brown heads and necks of juveniles make them easy to identify. The Florida scrub-jay is the only species of bird that is ...