Listen to the California scrub jay
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About the California scrub jay
The California scrub jay is a bird in the family Corvidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the California scrub jay sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The California scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) is a species of scrub jay native to western North America. It ranges from southern British Columbia throughout California and western Nevada near Reno to west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with Woodhouse's scrub jay and collectively called the western scrub jay. IUCN and the Handbook of the Birds of the World maintain this lumped taxon. The group was also lumped with the island scrub jay and the Florida scrub jay; the taxon was then called simply scrub jay. The California scrub jay is nonmigratory and can be found in urban areas, where it can become tame and will come to bird feeders. While many refer to scrub jays as "blue jays", the blue jay is a different species of bird entirely.
More from the family Corvidae
Common raven
Corvus corax
Eurasian magpie
Pica pica
Eurasian jay
Garrulus glandarius
Western jackdaw
Coloeus monedula
Rook
Corvus frugilegus
Hooded crow
Corvus cornix
Carrion crow
Corvus corone
Northern nutcracker
Nucifraga caryocatactes
Blue jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Alpine chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus
Red-billed chough
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
House crow
Corvus splendens
Frequently asked questions
What does a California scrub jay sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the California scrub jay on this page, including its call. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the California scrub jay endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the California scrub jay as “least concern”.
What family does the California scrub jay belong to?
The California scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) belongs to the family Corvidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Aphelocoma californica - California Scrub Jay by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve, Santa Clara… by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q848772 – CC0
- Wikipedia: California scrub jay – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Aphelocoma_californica_in_Seattle.jpg : Minette Layne derivative work: Samsara ( talk ) – CC BY-SA 2.0