WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Aphelocoma coerulescens | Scrub Jay 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
All but one subspecies of the scrub jay inhabit the West Coast and
southwestern United States.  The Florida scrub jay is restricted to the
Florida Panhandle and central Florida.  The two major populations are at
Cape Canaveral/Merritt Island and the Ocala National Forest, Florida
[9].  One confirmed sighting of a scrub jay was noted in southern
British Columbia [8].  Distributions by subspecies are listed below
[1,3]:

     A. c. ssp. coerulescens - central Florida including the panhandle; 
                               occasionally Jekyll Island, Georgia
     A. c. ssp. superciliosa - southern Washington and Oregon;
                               from San Francisco to the San Joaquin
                               Valley, California
     A. c. ssp. oocleptica - from San Francisco to Humboldt, California
     A. c. ssp. californica - coastal southern California
     A. c. ssp. woodhouseii - southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming; western
                              Colorado and Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas,
                              Mexico; occasionally into Nebraska and 
                              Kansas
     A. c. ssp. insularis - Santa Cruz Island, California
     A. c. ssp. obscura - northwest Baja California
     A. c. ssp. cactophila - central Baja California
     A. c. ssp. hypoleuca - southern California from the coast to the
                            high mountains
     A. c. ssp. texana - central Texas
    


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES40 Desert grasslands


STATES : 


    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
FL
    
ID
    
KS
    
NE
    
NV
    
NM
    
OK
    
OR
    
TX
    
UT
    
WA
    
WY







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierrra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K006  Redwood forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K031  Oak - juniper woodland
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K043  Palo verde - cactus shrub
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K046  Desert: vegetation largely lacking
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K115  Sand pine scrub


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    63  Cottonwood
    69  Sand pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    72  Southern scrub oak
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    89  Live oak
   111  South Florida slash pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   241  Western live oak
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   248  Knobcone pine
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
In Florida the scrub jay lives in sand pine (Pinus clausa) communities
with bluestem (Andropogon floridanus) and panic grass (Panicum
patentifolium) understories.  The scrub jay also inhabits the xeric oak
communities of Florida.  These communities include myrtle oak (Quercus
myrtifolia), Chapman oak (Q. chapmanii), and sand live oak (Q.
virginiana geminata) [21].  In coastal California, the scrub jay
inhabits chaparral communities of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum),
hoary leaf ceanothus (Ceanothus crassifolius), and California scrub oak
(Q. dumosa) [17].  The scrub jay also inhabits the redwood (Sequoia
sempervirens), scrub oak, and pinyon (Pinus edulis)/juniper (Juniperus
spp.) forests of the West.  In the Great Basin the scrub jay inhabits
montane scrub communities of Gambel oak (Q. gambelii) and
mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus spp.) [7].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Aphelocoma coerulescens | Scrub Jay