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Vinony's link graph records 206 inbound references to California Scrub Jay, and connects out to Corvidae, Cyanocorax and Aphelocoma.
It is catalogued under topics including Aphelocoma, Birds described in 1839 and Birds of Mexico.
Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Part of
- jay
- Parent taxon
- Aphelocoma
- Image
- Aphelocoma californica in Seattle cropped.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Aphelocoma californica
- Commons category
- Aphelocoma californica
- Commons gallery
- Aphelocoma californica
- taxon common name
- gaio-das-pradarias
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Encyclopedic overview
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 and western Nevada near Reno to west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with Woodhouse's scrub jay and collectively called the western scrub jay. IUCN and the Handbook of the Birds of the World maintain this lumped taxon. The group was also lumped with the island scrub jay and the Florida scrub jay; the taxon was then called simply scrub jay. The California scrub jay is nonmigratory and can be found in urban areas, where it can become tame and will come to bird feeders. While many refer to scrub jays as "blue jays", the blue jay is a different species of bird entirely.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “California Scrub Jay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.