Gagak cerdas (Clever Corvids)
Island Scrub-Jay
Aphelocoma insularis
- legendaris
- 92 km/h
- Rentan
Lives on one island and one island only. The most range-restricted bird in North America still on the route.
- Populasi
- ~1,700–2,300 individuals
- Habitat
- Oak chaparral and bishop pine woodland
- Fakta menarik
- The Island Scrub-Jay is the only landbird species in the continental United States found on just a single island, having evolved in isolation on California's Santa Cruz Island for roughly one million years.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to Santa Cruz Island, California's Channel Islands (the only place it is found today; fossil/subfossil evidence suggests it formerly also occurred on nearby San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands)
- Makanan
- Omnivorous: acorns (cached in large numbers for later use — a single jay may cache several thousand per year), pine and grass seeds, insects and spiders (including catching flying insects mid-air), and occasionally small vertebrates such as lizards, snakes, and mice, plus eggs and nestlings of other birds
- Ukuran
- 0,33 m
