Sentences with phrase «as the scrub jays»

For species such as scrub jays, once conservationists know which genes work best and when, they can in theory be better matchmakers in breeding endangered animals.

They were reducing the amount of noise they made,» Shaw says, just as the scrub jays do.

[4] This bird is a member of the crow family, and is one of a group of closely related North American species named as scrub jays.

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On a late summer afternoon seven centuries after that massacre, Salmon Ruin, as the ancient, long - abandoned pueblo is now known, is serene, its stillness broken only by the cackle of scrub jays.

«If theory of mind means thinking about how others are thinking, then how you think as a human might differ from how you think as a scrub - jay or an ape,» she says.

All of that curiosity and optimism spills right back into her academic work, as she attempts to decode the minds of her scrub - jays.

Chen and others see the scrub jay work as an illustration of the power of applying genomics to long - term field studies.

The study only looked at ravens, but it is possible that other corvids, such as crows and scrub jays, possess similar — if not equally impressive — smarts.

Among wild birds, Corvids such as crows, scrub jays and magpies are particularly susceptible.

Feline predators are believed to prey on common species, such as cardinals, blue jays, and house wrens, as well as rare and endangered species, such as piping plovers and Florida scrub jays.

In Florida, domestic cats have been recognized as predators and a serious threat to the Key Largo cotton mouse, rice rat, Key Largo woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Choctawhatchee beach mouse, Perdido Key beach mouse, Anastasia Island beach mouse, Southeastern beach mouse, green sea turtle, roseate tern, least tern, and Florida scrub - jay, all federal listed species.

For example, cats have preyed on piping plover, young and adult Florida scrub - jay, and least tern, all federal listed bird species, as well as black skimmer, painted bunting, and oystercatcher.

The island fox and island scrub - jay are exciting finds, as they're unique to the island, found nowhere else in the world.

This is one of the reasons that squirrels, scrub jays, and acorn woodpeckers store seed as a way to weather these cycles of abundance.

These were formerly often considered as a single species, the scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulesens, with five subspecies, [5] but full species status is now normally given to the Florida scrub jay, A. coerulesens, the island scrub jay, the California scrub jay, A. californica, and Woodhouse's scrub jay, A. woodhouseii.

The island scrub jay is classed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because its very small range makes it potentially vulnerable to a catastrophic incident [1] such as Avian malaria or a large fire that destroys their habitat.

The Channel Islands and the waters surrounding hold many endemic species and subspecies of animals, including fauna such as the Channel Islands deer mouse, the Channel Islands spotted skunk, island scrub jay, San Clemente loggerhead shrike, and San Clemente Bell's sparrow.

The Channel Islands and the waters surrounding hold many endemic species of animals, including fauna such as the Channel Islands spotted skunk, island scrub jay, ashy storm - petrel, Santa Cruz sheep, San Clemente loggerhead shrike, and the San Clemente sage sparrow.

Another possible mitigation for West Nile Virus is annual vaccination of a core group of island scrub - jays against the disease, though the expense and availability of an appropriate vaccine and the difficulty of recapturing jays for booster shots make this less attractive as a treatment (Boyce et al. 2011, Wheeler et al. 2011).