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You’re outside when suddenly you hear an unfamiliar chirp. Looking around, you wonder, “Is it a squirrel?” “Is it a bat?” And ...

The birder illustrated how she lays out a variety of bird food, and the buffet is soon gobbled up by her colorful feathered guests.

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Blue Jay Blue Jays are highly intelligent and known to mimic hawk calls to scare off other birds and protect their territory or food sources. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Most East Coast folks have met a Blue Jay before, whether it was bullying other birds at their feeders or aping raptor calls and dive-bombing sparrows and robins in the canopy. Its similarly hued ...

She has previously sponsored bills to nominate the blue-and-gray Florida scrub-jay, exclusively native to Florida, as the state bird. The mockingbird has a stable population in Florida and is ...

Klowden prefers crowning the scrub jay state bird. They live in the state’s sandy patches of shrubs known as sand pine scrub. He also said the scrub jays represent “family values.” “They live in ...

Florida lawmakers are considering replacing the mockingbird as the state bird with the flamingo and scrub-jay. This is the eighth attempt in 25 years to replace the mockingbird.