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Florida Scrub-Jay

Contributors: Cole Fredricks

A fellow member of the corvid family, the Florida Scrub-Jay contrasts sharply with the Pacific form of the Western Scrub-Jay that appears earlier in the gallery. Notice the blue cheeks and whitish forehead of this bird. Notice too the colored leg bands that serve to uniquely identify this individual in the long-term study of Florida Scrub-Jay.

Florida Scrub-Jay
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