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Then, when an island scrub jay hops under the basket, he lowers the boom and, minutes later, announces over a crackling two-way radio: ... “and that’s his female.

Obnoxious scrub jay isn't a pest when it eats from your hand. By Rob Lee Dec 1, 2001. ... The smallest of the three jays, and so probably a female, ...

DEAR JOAN: I’m curious about my resident scrub jay pair and their babies. What is their nesting procedure? I am looking forward to the parents bringing their fledglings and juveniles into my ...

Western scrub jay Scientific name: Aphelocoma californica Characteristics: A medium-sized jay with a blue head, wings and tail; grayish back and pale-gray underparts. The sexes have similar ...

The male and female birds look alike. While scrub-jays do share the pine forests with Steller’s jays, ... The scrub-jay stores food for later use but almost always hides away more food than it ...

DEAR JOAN: A scrub-jay is hanging around my yard. It’s ratty looking, like it may have been mauled by a cat. It’s missing its under feathers and has one club foot, which it keeps curled next ...

Rattling in scrub jays has been linked to courting behavior (Goodwin 1976). But the rattling of my neighborhood jays seems random; the isolated expression of an individual bird.

TAMPA — No more than 9,500 scrub jays are believed to be flitting about Florida, the only place in the world where the blue and grayish-brown birds are found.

Her neighbors are three families of Florida scrub jays that live in Lakeland… Christine Strickland is getting to know her neighbors a little better. She has even brought relatives over to meet them.

The Florida scrub jay caches about 4,000 acorns annually and remembers where each one is buried. “I can’t remember where I put my car keys yesterday,” Thaxton joked.