#1287 · 🐦 birds

California Scrub-Jay

🇳🇱 Westelijke Struikgaai ·Aphelocoma californica

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Matt K · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Dawn Beattie · CC BY 4.0
3. © Julia Lewis DVM, MPH · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Tom Mills · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Ross Millikan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © uzun · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © molly_fm · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © uzun · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Matt K · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The California scrub jay ( Aphelocoma californica ), is a species of scrub jay native to western North America. It ranges from southern British Columbia throughout California west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with the island scrub jay, and Woodhouse's scrub jay, collectively called the western scrub jay. The group was also lumped with the Florida scrub jay; the taxon was then called, simply, the scrub jay . The California scrub jay is...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 81,525iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
81,525 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1839 (187 years ago).