Florida Scrub-Jay
Aphelocoma coerulescens
Family: Crows, jays, and magpies
Florida Scrub-Jay is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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They have also been occasionally observed to eat other birds' eggs or nestlings, but this occurs rarely.
Florida scrub jays are omnivorous and eat a wide variety of acorns, seeds, peanuts, insects, tree frogs, turtles, snakes, lizards, and young mice.
Another potential danger of feeding Florida scrub jays occurs when people feed them near a road, as one major cause of death for scrub jays in urban areas is collision with vehicles.