Florida Scrub-Jay
Common
Name:
Florida
Scrub-Jay (FLSJ)
Scientific
Name:
Aphelocoma coerulescens
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – VU (Vulnerable)
National-level
Conservation Status: U.S. Endangered Species Act
(ESA) - Threatened
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 228 (Woolfenden and Fitzpatrick 1996); U.S. Recovery Plan for
individual species (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1990) and in U.S. South
Florida multi-species recovery plan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1999)
Distribution:
Resident locally in the
Florida
peninsula, especially in central and coastal sand ridges (AOU 1998)
Habitat
Associations:
Oak scrub with widely scattered pines, especially where low-growing
and periodically burned (AOU 1998); scrub and grasslands (Peninsular
Florida)
Source(s) of Research/monitoring Needs
(Number in ( ) is Physiographic Area number):
Peninsular Florida PIF Bird Conservation Plan (02); BNA No. 228 (Woolfenden
and Fitzpatrick 1996); PIF Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight
Science Committee 2004)
PIF Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category:
** (Long-term population trend monitoring considered adequate, but
some issues (e.g., bias) may not be accounted for)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
NOTE: See Recovery Plan
for additional research/monitoring needs for FLSJ
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – NOTE: Existing surveys provide acceptable data
at the continental level (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Maintain current species-specific
surveys (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
Habitat Needs/Ecology/Life History
- Dispersal
behavior in FLSJ - why some engage in long-distance dispersal;
dispersal behavior in different habitats (BNA)
- Information
on the energetics & physiological ecology of FLSJ (BNA)
Effects of Human Development/Disturbance
- See
needs under “Demographics”
Landscape
- Effects
of fragmentation of scrub "islands" and surrounding
landscape on FLSJs (Peninsular Florida)
Invasives/Exotics/Disease/Parasites/Contaminants
- Determine
the importance of disease in the population biology of FLSJ (BNA)
Demographics
- Determine
causes of spatial & annual variation in birth rates, death rates,
and movement patterns in natural & human-modified habitats (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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