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Island Scrub-Jay

Aphelocoma insularis

Photo by avesjohn
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Description:

Slightly larger than mainland Western Scrub-Jay (A. californica), with black (not brown) cheeks, darker brown back, deeper blue upperparts, and blue (not white) undertail coverts. Western Scrub-Jay has never been recorded on Santa Cruz Island, the only location of this endemic species.

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