page_title: List of birds of Florida
section_title: Crows, jays, and magpies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Florida / Crows, jays, and magpies
caption_attribution_description: English: Florida Scrub Jay - Aphelocoma coerulescens, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida. I've been trying to see one of these beautiful birds for years. I was told you had to call for them, "a sort of squawk with spit". So I tried. Imagine my surprise when a stunning blue and gray bird flew out of the pine tree, straight at my eyes. I closed my eyes, anticipating an Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" scenario, and it landed on my head. It scratched around my head for about a minute, then flew off to the post where this picture was taken. The other people in the parking lot were just killing themselves laughing. This is apparently fairly common, but it was a big surprise for me.
context_page_description: This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee. As of December 31, 2018, there were 525 species included in the official list. Of them, 159 species and eight identifiable subspecies are classed as accidental, 14 have been introduced to North America, four are extinct, and one has been extirpated. More than 100 "verifiable...exotic species [are] found free-flying in the wild" according to the FOSRC.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following status codes have been used to annotate some species:
  Accidental - a species that occurs rarely or accidentally in Florida, and for which the FOSRC requests a full report for verification
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Corvidae
  The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers, and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence.
  Blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata
  Florida scrub-jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens
  American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos
  Fish crow, Corvus ossifragus
caption: Florida scrub-jay
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