Despite their colorful appearance, blue jays are actually in the genus corvidae, the same as crows and ravens. These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail and weigh under 3.5 ...

Blue jays are one of the first birds we learn to identify as kids. You can find them all over the country, but not a single state has chosen the blue jay as its state bird.

It’s the only one of the state’s many native birds that is found only here, giving it a competitive edge in the battle for the top spot. Similar to the blue jay, the scrub jay is blue and gray ...

She has previously sponsored bills to nominate the blue-and-gray Florida scrub jay, exclusively native to Florida, as the state bird. Credit: Kat Tran/Fresh Take Florida ...

But enthusiastic bird lovers in Southwest Florida cannot seem to resist feeding scrub jays, cousins to the blue jay and a protected species, which land on their arms, shoulders, hands and even on ...

Florida scrub-jays are blue and gray birds that prefer sand pine, oak scrub and scrubby flatwoods and they live in the driest areas, "including ancient sandy ridges in Central Florida, sand dunes ...