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The Florida scrub jay may exhibit coordinated cooperative hunting, as seen in one case where a mated pair of the birds were observed attacking a black racer together in southcentral Florida. The snake may have been too large for one jay to kill it alone, and the pair ultimately succeeded in killing the reptile.
Florida scrub-jays are now nesting one week earlier than they did in 1981, according to a study published recently in the journal Ornithological Advances.While longer breeding times typically lead ...
The Florida scrub jay is endemic to the central highlands. It's bid to be state bird was shot down by a gun lobbyist's concerns over property rights Florida scrub jay: Threatened, politically ...
Juvenile Florida scrub jay at Blue Spring State Park, Florida. The diet consists mainly of acorns and pine nuts. However, grain, berries, and other fruits are often eaten as well. These birds can also be omnivorous; their diet can include insects, eggs and nestlings, small frogs, mice, and reptiles. As food-storing birds, the scrub jays ...
In addition to his research using color-banding of Florida scrub jays, Woolfenden made many important contributions to ornithology in Florida. He was a charter member (in 1972) of the Florida Ornithological Society (FOS), served on the Society's board of directors for several terms, and was the Society's president from 1991 to 1992.
We are an organization devoted to birds. Florida scrub jays are federally threatened. Jonathan Dickinson State Park is the southeasternmost place they can still be found; development farther south ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Take a stroll through one of the remaining pockets of Florida scrub habitat and listen for a loud, scratchy weep — a sound that distinguishes the Florida scrub-jay from other ...
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Florida. ... Florida scrub-jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens; Woodhouse's scrub-jay, Aphelocoma woodhouseii (A) [161]