Date: 10/28/25 9:41 am From: Tom Benedict via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] California scrub jay - Wikipedia
> I will be sad if the Steller's Jay's are pushed out of our area.
Are these birds documented? Have they crossed our borders legally? If not I say we ship ‘em back to where they came from, and if they don’t want that, send ‘em to El Salvador or Eswatini! We can’t let these illegal criminals continue to terrorize and displace our birds.
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>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM Chuq Von Rospach via Tweeters <tweeters...> <mailto:<tweeters...>> wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2025 at 11:36:37, Stephen Elston via Tweeters <tweeters...> <mailto:<tweeters...>> wrote:
>>>> I am regularly seeing California Scrub Jay in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. The Stelars Jays still outnumber them significantly.
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>>> For better and worse, Scrub Jays are quite good at expanding territory. Back when I was living in California there was an area I was monitoring regularly over a number of years, and over about a decade, we saw it go from being primarily a Stellar’s Jay area to Scrub Jay territory with only a couple of isolated Stellar’s families in the deeper wooded areas. I expect by now the Stellar’s have been completely pushed out. Scrub Jays keep more of a family unit going than Stellar’s, which I think gives them an advantage when competing for territory (much like Northern Mockingbirds do). The Scrub Jays adapt much more easily to suburban and urban environments.
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