Florida Scrub-Jay
Florida Scrub-Jay: Medium, crestless jay with gray upperparts and underparts, blue head, and pale eyebrows. Throat is gray and breast has blue-gray streaks. The wings and tail are blue. Bill, legs and feet are black. Direct flight with steady bouyant wing beats. Glides between perches.
● Song:
"Quay-quay-quay", "cheek-cheek-cheek"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Florida Scrub-Jay: Eats insects, spiders, ticks, mice, small turtles, eggs and young of smaller birds, acorns, nuts, and fruits. Forages in low to middle levels in vegetation or hops on the ground.
● Breeding & nesting:
Florida Scrub-Jay: Two to five pale green eggs irregularly spotted with red-brown are laid in a nest made of bulky sticks, lined with roots, twigs, moss, grass, and hair, and built on a horizontal branch or in the crotch of a low tree or bush, 2 to 12 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 15 to 17 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Florida Scrub-Jay: Blue Jay has slightly larger, chunkier body, blue crest, black collar from breast to nape, black back, and bold white spots on wings and tail.
Flight Pattern
Direct flight with steady buoyant wing beats. Glides between perches within tree, between trees, and from tree to ground.