Western Scrub-Jay
Aphelocoma californica | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies) |
Aphelocoma californica
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies)
This opportunistic, intelligent corvid varies in how likely it is to raid the stores of others—and those scrub-jays most likely to steal from neighbors are also the ones most suspicious of their neighbors stealing from them.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Scrub Jays: From one species to four 2023
- Jennifer Ackerman Week: Part I 2020
- The Humanity of Scrub Jays 2019
- Western Scrub-Jay funerals 2015
- California, Here I Come! (Twice in one year!) 2013
- Western Scrub-Jay Funerals and Blue Jay Irish Wakes 2012
- National Blue Jay Awareness Month 2012
- Human Connections 2001
- Book Review: National Geographic Field Guide, Third Edition 1999
- California Birding 1994
- Relict species of California 1989