DEAR JOAN: Surrounding our yard are many trees that attract many birds. At least there used to be many birds until a dominant scrub-jay — or jays — decided to make our backyard their own private ...

A comprehensive new genetic and statistical study reveals two groups of scrub jays -- one in Mexico and one in Texas -- deserve status as independent species. The paper also uses genomic data to ...

A group of environmental science students at Seminole High School have joined a decades-long effort to knock the mockingbird off its perch as the state bird and replace it with the Florida scrub-jay. ...

Conservationists are raising concerns that a threatened bird may not be getting the help it needs to survive on state-owned lands in Manatee County and Southwest Florida. The Florida scrub jay is the ...

NORTH PORT – Florida scrub-jays, gopher tortoises and what steps the city of North Port can take to better protect those two endangered species were hot topics for commissioners Tuesday night. The ...