Date: 10/27/25 12:04 pm From: Stephen Elston via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] California scrub jay - Wikipedia
Thanks for sharing your article, Steve. Very interesting.
I am regularly seeing California Scrub Jay in the Greenwood neighborhood of
Seattle. The Stelars Jays still outnumber them significantly.
Happy birding everyone! Steve
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM Steve Hampton via Tweeters <
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> Here is my article in the WOS newsletter about their expansion into the
> PNW.
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> They have become a regular species in Port Townsend, with multiple
> breeding pairs. I encounter them daily now, when just 4 years ago they were
> flagged on eBird.
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> chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://wos.org/documents/wosnews/wosnews192.pdf
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM Dan Reiff via Tweeters <
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>> Hello Tweeters,
>> This is a species we see only twice a year, in the last five years, one
>> bird, once in the spring and once in the fall, for one day and occasionally
>> two.
>> We usually will hear them before we see them at our feeders.
>> The four resident Stellar Jays seem to give them the clear message that:
>> nope, this is our territory and food source! Time to move along!
>> I found the behavior section of this article to be very interesting.
>> Very smart, neat birds.
>> This Wikipedia article has some useful references. You can click on them
>> if you want to see the some of the original research articles.
>> Dan
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_scrub_jay >>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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