Aphelocoma californica

• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats : 1.7 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane 3.8 Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation

Biology

Diet

Mostly: Nuts Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects Eggs Reptiles or Amphibians .

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 2-5
• Length of Incubation : 15-17? days
• Days to Fledge : 18-19
• Number of Broods: 1, rarely 2

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Pinyon Jay, Mexican Jay

Members of the genus Aphelocoma

There are approximately 61 species in this genus:

A. california (Western Scrub-Jay) · A. californica (Western Scrub Jay) · A. californica cactophila · A. californica californica (Western Scrub Jay) · A. californica cana (Eagle Mountain Scrub Jay) · A. californica cyanotis · A. californica grisea · A. californica hypoleuca · A. californica immanis · A. californica nevadae (Nevada Scrub Jay) · A. californica obscura · A. californica oocleptica (Nicasio Scrub Jay) · A. californica remota · A. californica ssp · A. californica sumichrasti · A. californica texana · A. californica woodhousei · A. californica woodhouseii · A. californicus · A. coerulescens (Desert California Jay) · A. coerulescens cactophila (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens californica · A. coerulescens cana · A. coerulescens coerulescens (Desert California Jay) · A. coerulescens cyanotis · A. coerulescens hypoleuca · A. coerulescens immanis · A. coerulescens insularis · A. coerulescens nevadae (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens obscura · A. coerulescens oocleptica · A. coerulescens sumichrasti · A. coerulescens superciliosa · A. coerulescens texana · A. coerulescens woodhousei (Scrub Jay) · A. coerulescens woodhouseii · A. cyanocorax · A. gracilis · A. guerrerensis · A. insularis (Island Scrub-Jay) · A. sieberi · A. sordida · A. sordida couchii · A. sordida sieberii · A. sumichrasti · A. ultramarina (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina arizonae (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina colimae · A. ultramarina couchi · A. ultramarina couchii · A. ultramarina potosina · A. ultramarina ultramarina (Gray-Breasted Jay) · A. ultramarina wollweberi · A. unicolor (Unicoloured Jay) · A. unicolor griscomi · A. unicolor guerrerensis · A. unicolor oaxacae · A. unicolor unicolor (Unicoloured Jay) · A. wollweberi · A. woodhousei · A. woodhouseii

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• A bibliography of birds: with special reference to anatomy, behavior, biochemistry --. by Reuben Myron Strong Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1959 UND url p. 18.
• A first book upon the birds of Oregon & Washington: a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states / by William Rogers Lord. Portland, Or.: William Rogers Lod, Office of the J.K. Gill Co., 1902 ENG url p. 274.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. ENG url p. 610.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• American birds, studied and photographed from life, by William Lovell Finley; illustrated from photographs by Herman T. Bohlman and the author. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1907. ENG url p. 171.
• Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory / Pomona College. Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- ENG url p. 176, p. 191.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 496.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Bird news. San Francisco: Avicultural Society of California, [1909] ENG url p. 5.
• Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. ENG url p. 155.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. ENG url p. 569.
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; wi New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. ENG url p. 190.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 107, p. 327, p. 329, p. 330, p. 331, p. 483, p. 487, p. 490, p. 775, p. 782.
• Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences. [S.l.: The Academy], 1884- ENG url p. 422, p. 427.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 124, p. 234, p. 236.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. ENG url p. 51, p. 55.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. ENG url p. 640.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 112.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. ENG url p. 496, p. 497.
• Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) By George Albert Boulenger, F.R.S. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis]1909-16. ENG url p. 47.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 499, p. 507, p. 521, p. 525.
• Check-list of North American birds: according to the canons of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. [s.l.]: The Union, 1889. ENG url p. 42.
• Color key to North American birds, by Frank M. Chapman with upward of 800 drawings by Chester A. Reed, B. S. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. ENG url p. 184, p. 291.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley, by Florence Merriam Bailey, with thirty-three full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and over six hundred cuts in the Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904. ENG url p. 46, p. 60.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 179, p. 26.
• Katalog der Eiersammlung, nebst Beschreibungeh der aussereuropchen Eier. Berlin, R. Friedler & Sohn, 1910. GER url p. 362.
• Nests and eggs of North American birds; by Oliver Davie. Columbus [O.]Hann & Adair, 1889. ENG url p. 261.
• North American birds eggs, by Chester A. Reed...illustrating the eggs of nearly every species of North American birds. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1904. ENG url p. 336.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, ENG url p. 110, p. 225, p. 269.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. ENG url p. 11, p. 157, p. 3.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 212, p. 582.
• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge. Philadelphia: The Society ENG url p. 167.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. ENG url p. 277, p. 507, p. 558, p. 579, p. 779.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 211, p. 422, p. 490, p. 666.
• Richard C. Banks: Formerly included in A. coerulescens
• Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 185, p. 392, p. 91.
• The Canadian bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred north American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1914. ENG url p. 307.
• The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds, by Henry W. Henshaw; illustrated in natural colors with 250 paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Washington, D.C., National geographic society[1921] ENG url p. 24.
• The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. ENG url p. 242.
• Zoe:a biological journal. 2 1891 San Diego, Calif. [etc.]Zoe Publishing Co. ENG url p. 169, p. 363, p. 397.
• Zoologischer Anzeiger. Jena, VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag. GER url p. 268.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3847096
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554128
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852038
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554128
• IUCN ID: 51095
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPAV06040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13081

©2004-2009 the BayScience Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.