How to Use scrub jay in a Sentence

scrub jay

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  • The scrub jay and pink flamingo should have been our state birds for years now.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The difference is the scrub jay also has a blue face and a grayish chest.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Bills backing the flamingo and the scrub jay have been proposed in recent years but have not passed.
    — News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Wildlife lovers will find the endemic Florida scrub jay in the park year-round.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Eurasian jays are relatives of our blue jays and scrub jays here in the United States.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
  • The bill also would name the Florida scrub jay as the official state songbird.
    — News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Airola found that scrub jays adapt to urban areas with fewer oaks by flying – and hiding – acorns hundreds of yards from the source.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 19 Jan. 2018
  • On the other hand, avian enthusiasts could begin to see the Western scrub jay showing up there, at least in the winter.
    — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • On Santa Cruz, keep an eye out for the highly visible (and tiny) island foxes and island scrub jays.
    — Elisa Parhad, latimes.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Speaking of nature, all is not necessarily well in the California scrub jay world.
    — Scott Sandell, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • Behavior Florida scrub jays are what’s known as cooperative breeders.
    — National Geographic, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Nicola Clayton of the University of Cambridge has shown in two decades of research that scrub jays excel in all aspects of complex cognition.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • It’s believed that the bird species that feed on the various seeds — in the case of the pinyon pine, the California scrub jay is a big seed-spreader — had not returned to the areas for one reason or another.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Burbank resident Anne Curran thrilled at discovering Aphelocoma californica, a Western scrub jay, high atop a hillside tree after hearing its piercing call.
    — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 7 June 2018

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