The Chumash people who were the original inhabitants of the northern Channel Islands may have eaten
the local scrub jay, or used its feathers for decoration, since they are known to have made feather bands including jay feathers on the Californian mainland.
[FN46] A report on the ecology and management of the Florida
scrub -
jay warns that «a population of domestic cats supported by human food offerings could eliminate a small,
local population of Florida
scrub -
jays.»