DEAR JOAN: We have a new family of scrub-jays in our yard and I have been giving them the occasional peanuts and seeds. Yesterday, I heard something I had never heard before. Rather than the familiar ...

My dog Zoe's pretty cute, but when it comes to brainpower, she's no match for her little blue neighbor -- a common scrub jay. This 3-inch-tall feathered sneak has her number. Every day he lies in wait ...

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 ...

Warmer winters are leading to increased reproductive effort but lower success. Global warming is impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a study ...

Wandering the sandy scrub habitat of Deltona’s Lyonia Preserve, traversing rolling dunes filled with short oaks and prickly pear cactus, Stephen Kintner greets resident Florida scrub-jays as if old ...

Florida scrub jays are clearly declining in Brevard County, Florida. Jays lived on the barrier island in the South Beaches for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. The last one was seen there ...

Though I like to brag that I’m a Florida boy, born and bred, I must confess that I’ve never seen the state’s sole endemic bird species—the scrub jay. It used to be easy to see scrub jays. They were ...