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I remember reading Corey’s great post a while back on Island Scrub-jays and this inspired me to take our large TV crew (Aderman and me) out to Santa Cruz Island off the coast of California to search for these enigmatic birds. Our destination was the picturesque Prisoner’s Harbor. Prisoner’s Harbor gets its name from a [...]

Of all the birds one can see in southern California there is one that is a bit more special than the rest. The Island Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma insularis) is that bird. Not just because it has a larger bill and brighter, more intense colors than the everyday Western Scrub-Jay, but because it only can be found [...]