Florida scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens

Identification Tips:

• Length: 10? inches
• Black sturdy bill
• Grayish supercilium and dark eyeline
• Blue head, rump, wings and tail
• Gray-brown back
• Grayish white throat with diffuse streaking and dark lower border
• Gray-brown underparts
• Dark legs
• Range restricted to central Florida

Similar species:

The only other large, long-tailed, blue bird within the range of the Florida Scrub-Jay is the Blue Jay. The Blue Jay has a crest and white patches in the wings and tail.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.