The jay’s Latin name is Garrulus glandarius ... As well as eating the nuts, studies have shown that the bird deliberately cultivates oak saplings to feed the nutritious first leaves, known ...

Collect the loose acorns that have fallen in your yard and gather them together for a Florida Scrub Jay feast. The acorns will remind the birds of oak trees and branches from their natural habitat.

In fact, blue jays have been credited with accelerating oak expansion northwards after ... for humans to get dive-bombed by a territorial jay bird. They are also highly intelligent.

The scrub jay is uniquely Floridian ... Florida scrub-jays are blue and gray birds that prefer sand pine, oak scrub and scrubby flatwoods and they live in the driest areas, "including ancient ...

The birds are building nests and laying more ... 3, 2011, file photo, a Florida scrub jay is shown in oak-pine woodland habitat in south central Florida. UIG via Getty Images, FILE So while ...

Being named the state bird won’t confer any added protection to the scrub-jay, which is already protected ... hawk along the west border of the Split Oak Forest Wildlife and Environmental ...

Local birders are issuing a warning call in solidarity with national groups like the National Audubon Society. In March, ...

The IDNR said the birds could have died out on frozen Lake Michigan and later washed up on the beaches as the ice cover thawed at the end of last week. At Oak Street Beach on Sunday, Belloc ...

A RED OAK MAN WAS KILLED IN AN ATV ACCIDENT THIS WEEK ... Police say lifesaving measures were performed, but the man, later identified as Jay Woodward, died at the scene.

The scrub jay is uniquely Floridian ... Florida scrub-jays are blue and gray birds that prefer sand pine, oak scrub and scrubby flatwoods and they live in the driest areas, "including ancient ...

The jay’s Latin name is Garrulus glandarius – which roughly translates to ‘chattering acorn gatherer’. As well as eating the nuts, studies have shown that the bird deliberately cultivates oak saplings ...