Bird Watching: Another of Americas' favorite birds, 1 by bsharf

bsharf wrote:
The Florida Scrub Jay is a isolated subspecies of the Western Scrub Jay. Some people want to make it Florida's State Bird, instead of the present Mockingbird. Unfortunately they will probably go extinct before that happens. They live in a very specialized dry, scrub habitat, which unfortunately is also ideal land for building houses. I saw them at the Merrit Island National Wildlife Refuge near Cape Canaveral. That refuge has the largest remaining population of Scrub Jays. The Florida Scrub Jay is as personable and curious as the Blue Jay. This bird was checking us out, when we were on the Scrub Jay trail.