California Scrub Jay

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae

Genus

Aphelocoma

eBird Code

cowscj1

Subspecies (7)

• Aphelocoma californica californica

  coastal range of central California (western USA)

• Aphelocoma californica cana

  arid southern California (Eagle Mountain area of Riverside County)

• Aphelocoma californica caurina

  southwestern Oregon to central California (western USA)

• Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca

  central and southern Baja California (northwestern Mexico)

• Aphelocoma californica immanis

  southwestern Washington and western Oregon (northwestern USA)

• Aphelocoma californica obscura

  southwestern California and northern Baja California (south to Todos Santos Bay)

• Aphelocoma californica oocleptica

  south-central Oregon to interior south-central California and western Nevada (western USA)