California Scrub Jay

Aphelocoma californica

California Scrub Jay photographed by Mark Curtis
May 19, 2026

When to look

Reported most in April, across 2.7M open records.

Records by month. January, 254,420 records. February, 256,555 records. March, 239,465 records. April, 267,732 records. May, 266,260 records. June, 191,981 records. July, 161,981 records. August, 177,431 records. September, 246,785 records. October, 243,087 records. November, 204,393 records. December, 229,117 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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