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	Florida Scrub Jay
		Scrub habitats comprise an increasingly imperiled ecosystem characterized by nutrient-poor soils, periodic drought, seasonally high rainfall, frequent wild fires, and plants and animals endemic to Florida.
		Scrub habitats associated with Florida's barrier islands, mainland coasts, Ten Mile Ridge, and Lake Wales Ridge are some of the most endangered natural communities in the United States, with estimates of habitat loss since pre-settlement times ranging from 70 to more than 85 percent.
		Scrub- jay clutches usually contain 3 or 4 eggs, are incubated for 17 to 18 days, and fledging occurs 16 to 19 days after hatching.
	www.brevardcounty.us /environmental_management/wildlife_scrub_jay.cfm (1781 words)

	Florida scrub jay: Threatened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A cousin of the scrub jays common in the western United States and Mexico, the Florida scrub jay is found only in the Sunshine State.
		And as one Florida scrub jay demonstrated by landing on the little boy's head, these jays are known to be friendly enough to eat nuts and seeds from the palm of a bird lover's hand.
		As most of the scrub habitats are urbanized, considerably destroying and fragmenting the Florida scrub jay habitat, other factors contribute to the demise of the threatened species.
	www.ecofloridamag.com /archived/scrub_jay.htm (1006 words)

	About the Scrub Jay
		The young scrub jay usually has more dusty brown on its head and neck which is evident until the bird is about 5 or 6 months old.
		Florida scrub jays generally live close to the cover of oaks in some of the driest areas of Florida known as the scrub.
		Scrubs mate for life and their offspring stay as helpers for a year or more to raise the newly hatched birds.
	sln.fi.edu /fellows/fellow6/feb99/oldfiles/AboutScrubjay1.old.html (505 words)

	Scrub Jay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Scrub Jay is a creature of dry scrub oak barrens, of which precious little remains in central Florida.
		Scrub Jays are often seen feeding on the ground.
		One of the Florida Scrub Jay’s most endearing traits may be hazardous to its health: it is friendly and unafraid of people and with a bit of coaxing will take a peanut from the hand.
	echotourism.com /birding/scrubjay.htm (206 words)

	Birding Column: Scrub Jays Go Nuts for Peanuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now, scrub jays are very particular and persistent in their search for, retrieval, and storage of peanuts.
		However, there are times when the scrub jay will choose one peanut over the other and then fly off.
		The scrub jay is weighing each peanut in his beak, and, of course, he chooses the heavier peanut to fly off with, as this peanut will no doubt contain more nourishment for him as compared to the energy it takes to retrieve it.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/11/1125_031125_birdmanscrubjay.html (1154 words)

	Gallery of Scrub Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It occurs in scrubs along the Atlantic coast, the lower Gulf Coast, and in the interior of the Florida peninsula.
		Scrub jays are similar to blue jays, but lack a crest.
		Florida scrub jays usually live in small family groups, called clans, consisting of the male and female and one or more related "helpers" who assist with defending the territory and feeding nestlings.
	www.floridata.com /tracks/scrub/animals/aph_coer.htm (177 words)

	All About Birds
		A bold and familiar jay of the American West, the Western Scrub-Jay is common throughout much of the western lowlands, especially in areas with oaks and pinyon pines.
		The shape of the bill helps the jays open their preferred foods: a stout bill is good for hammering open acorns and the hook helps rip off the shell; a thinner, more pointed bill can get in between pine cone scales to get at the pine seeds.
		Jays that had never stolen food did not pay any attention to whether other jays were watching them hide their food.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Western_Scrub-Jay.html (379 words)

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		Scrub jays are rarely found as residents in habitat with more than 50% canopy cover that is over 3 meters (10 feet) tall, but may have intersparsed (non-canopied) sand pine (Pinus clausa).
		Scrub habitats in the interior of the Florida peninsular are subject to development for citrus groves and housing developments.
		Scrub jays have disappeared from 40% of the locations where they formerly occurred, and the toatal population has declined by half in the past 100 years.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/esis/lists/e104013.htm (2557 words)

	The Society For The Preservation of Bay Area Scrub Jay Habitats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jays are scattered geographically, but there are West Coast species (Stellars, pinon) and east coast species (eastern, scrub), and your standard-ass blue jay that is everywhere.
		The scrub jay is distinct from the other jays by having a blueish-green cap, no crest, and a white stripe through the eye.
		Scrub jays are, by definition, underage, so they cannot legally purchase their own.
	www.catsdogs.com /jimbo/society.html (1146 words)

	Scrub Jay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scrub jays are our most obvious resident birds with their bright colors and noisy harsh sqawks.
		Scrub jays lack the crest of the Steller's jay that lives in the evergreen forests of neighboring mountains.
		Scrub jays are found in almost every yard and woodland thicket.
	vme.net /dvm/ARNHA/srcjay.html (181 words)

	Scrub-jay Survey Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Heat and especially wind lowers the tendency for jays to respond to distant territorial scolds, and wind reduces the distance over which recordings can be heard.
		Jays are also reluctant to fly on windy days regardless of hour or season.
		The poorest times of the year to survey are late winter, when jays are most likely to fly far for food, and late spring when the young are quiet and the adults are occupied with molt and feeding fledglings.
	northflorida.fws.gov /Scrub-Jays/survey-guide.htm (1174 words)

	Scrub Habitat - Enchanted Forest - Titusville, Florida
		Scrub in Brevard County has been reduced greatly by development; for example, it is estimated that in Brevard County north of Cocoa the total area of scrub decreased by 69% between 1943 and 1991.
		Oak-saw palmetto scrub is a shrubland dominated by scrub oaks, saw palmetto, and shrubs in the heath family including rusty lyonia, staggerbush, shiny blueberry, fetterbush (Lyonia lucida), and tarflower (Befaria racemosa).
		Scrub reserves must be burned under prescribed conditions because fire cannot spread in a fragmented landscape as it once did.
	www.nbbd.com /godo/ef/scrub (1193 words)

	SOFIA Kid's Page - Critters - Florida Scrub Jay
		The Florida scrub jay is mostly blue and gray, with a light-gray forehead and white throat.
		Florida scrub jays live in scrubs and scrubby flatwoods of Florida.
		Unlike other Florida songbirds, Florida scrub jays remain near their parents' nest for several years after they have matured instead of leaving to establish their own territory.
	sofia.usgs.gov /virtual_tour/kids/critters/jay.html (180 words)

	Natural Resources - Scrub Jays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scrub is a unique vegetation community composed of plants that are adapted to well-drained, sandy, nutrient poor soil.
		Scrub vegetation is dependant on periodic wildfire and is able to withstand high seasonal rainfall and periods of extended drought.
		Scrub is characterized by several species of oaks and pines.
	www.charlottecountyfl.com /EnvironmentalServices/NaturalResources/ScrubJays (1034 words)

	Audubon of Florida :: Florida Scrub-Jay Population Monitoring and Habitat Restoration
		The Florida Scrub-Jay is restricted to early-successional xeric oak scrub of the Florida peninsula.
		Both the Jay and its habitat are endemic to the state.
		As a result, most scrub in Florida is overgrown, and many scrubs have succeeded to oak hammocks or sand pine forests.
	www.audubonofflorida.org /conservation/jay.htm (542 words)

	Conservation Group Wins Grant To Protect Jays - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The volunteers document the size of scrub jay families and their territories for later analysis by scientists.
		Scrub jays are listed as threatened mainly due to habitat loss and destruction.
		Scrub jays, the only bird that lives exclusively in Florida, require a habitat of scrub oaks and sandy soil to survive.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGB88A491XD.html (176 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Technology:West Nile may imperil threatened scrub jay 09/06/01
		The Florida scrub jay has survived strip malls and beach homes, highways and a near-end to the wildfires that once rejuvenated its habitat.
		The scrub jay, officially designated a threatened species, is expected to be especially vulnerable to West Nile because of its historic susceptibility to other forms of mosquito-borne encephalitis.
		Scrub jays nest in the low sand pines and scrub oaks on sandy ridges.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/090601/tec_124-6597.shtml (501 words)

	Western Scrub-jay Species Account for CPIF
		A.c.superciliosa "Long-tailed Jay or the California Jay of the Interior": breeds and winters from the interiors of southern Oregon to Nevada and to south-central California, Ventura County.
		Jays were seen as pests by both farmers and fruit growers for damaging their crops.
		Jays will select acorns which are likely to grow into seedlings and are responsible for providing a valuable means for dispersing and planting oaks (Scott 1990).
	www.prbo.org /calpif/htmldocs/species/oak/wesjacct.html (4816 words)

	Scrub Jay
		The Florida scrub jay thrives in a scrub, which is an extremely dry habitat.
		Most of this scrub has a few plants that are less than half a foot tall.
		Florida scrub jays don't do well in damp and dark forests, so the dry, locations prevalent along the Florida peninsula are what they call home.
	www.hvmi.com /scrubjay.htm (260 words)

	scrub jays in calfornia
		The western scrub jay is found in most of California except the southern desert, the lower central valley, and the higher elevations of the Sierras.
		Most of the kids in my class had no idea what a scrub jay was let alone why they should or should not hate it.
		For all the scrub jay's bad manners, they are actually very good at distributing and planting acorns.
	www.laspilitas.com /California_birds/Jays_and_magpies/scrub_jay/scrub_jay_in_your_garden.htm (541 words)

	Scrub Jay - Wildlife - Presidio of San Francisco
		A Scrub Jay sits at the forest edge at Lobos Creek Dunes.
		The Scrub Jay eats nuts, fruits, insects, bird eggs (and the young) and often caches its food.
		Otherwise, it is a brownish-gray with a white throat necklace.
	www.nps.gov /goga/prsf/nathist1/wildlife/birds/scrubjay.htm (103 words)

	Bluebirds Are Free - Lessons about equality and respect in relationships taught by a scrub jay
		Scrub jays have been shown through experimental evidence to display an amazing spatial intelligence, and the ability to remember where they have stored surplus food supplies such as nuts, acorns or other durable foodstuffs -- often returning to hiding places years later, and even after using hundreds of other hiding places.
		Scrub jays are about 10" to 12" in length and usually appear alone or in small groups of up to four birds, not in large flocks.
		Western Scrub Jays are ubiquitous year-round residents throughout all parts of San Diego County (and the rest of Southern California for that matter).
	www.wordwiz72.com /bbird.html (2188 words)

	October Bird of the Month - Blue Jay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The blue jay's nest is a bowl of twigs and dry leaves high in a tree; the three to five eggs are blue or greenish spotted with brown.
		Steller's jay, the western counterpart of the blue jay, is a resident of the coniferous forests and pine-oak woodlands from southern Alaska south through the higher elevations of the United States and Mexico to Nicaragua.
		Like the eastern blue jay, Steller's jay has an erect crest, but its overall color is a deeper blue, and it lacks the white markings on the wings and tail.
	www.passporttotexas.com /birds/oct.html (587 words)

	SCRUB PRESERVATION for The Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, Brevard County, Florida
		The Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) is a native of Florida’s scrub habitat.
		Scrub ecosystems are rapidly declining throughout its historic range in coastal Brevard County, Florida.
		Bergan (1994) found an estimated 68.8% loss in Atlantic Coastal Ridge scrub habitat from 1943 to 1991 in North Brevard County.[1] Brevard County scrub habitats are regionally significant in that they support some of the largest Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) populations remaining in the State of Florida, as well as other species of conservation concern.
	www.brevardparks.com /eel/education/scb/intro.htm (324 words)

	Florida - Scrub Jay & Snail Kite
		The Florida Scrub Jay is closely related to other scrub jays in the country, and some of the related species (until recently considered sub-species) are common feeder birds.
		As Kevin suggests, the scrub jay population here is one of the most thoroughly studied in the world, and as such is interesting from both a scientific and historical perspective.
		They are in many ways genetically and behaviorally distinct from western scrub jays (they are the only scrub jays except for some populations in Mexico that breed cooperatively, for example), so it may be that they have evolved fairly rigid "habitat templates" that simply prevent them from expanding into other non-native habitats.
	www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000Mco (2029 words)

	Florida Scrub Jay - Florida Wildlife Magazine
		There are other scrubs and other jays, but no other bird like the Florida scrub jay.
		The scrub jay also preys on spiders, lizards, frogs, snakes and mice, and will feed on berries, sunflower seeds, corn and peanuts.
		The preferred habitat is an extremely dry, relatively open area with oak and sand pine scrub trees less than 10 feet tall.
	www.floridaconservation.org /pubs/fl-wild/species/scrubjay.htm (256 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Florida Scrub-Jay
		The wings, tail, head and neck are dull blue and the throat is white, bordered with a blue-gray bib.
		While this bird might vaguely resemble a Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), it is duller, has no crest, has longer legs and tail and lacks the bold fl and white markings of the Blue Jay.
		Within the state, its range is further restricted to scrub oak habitat of suitable age (5-15 years) and size.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=84 (863 words)

	State: Mockingbird reigns as state bird; scrub jay grounded
		Futch took up the scrub jay's cause after schoolchildren in his district wrote letters asking for the change.
		The scrub jay squawks, Littlefield said, and "there are those who have said it will get on your nerves real quickly."
		The scrub jay is officially listed as a species of special concern.
	www.sptimes.com /News/033100/news_pf/State/Mockingbird_reigns_as.shtml (266 words)

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