Jay watchers,

Thanks for your post. As long as we are settling on correct bird names, and
you have politely noted that it is Steller's Jay (named for the great
naturalist Wilhelm Steller), just for consistency please note also that the
other bird in this exchange is Western Scrub-Jay, with a hyphenated name as
there are three species of Scrub-Jay. An editor will someday thank you for
this little bit of precision.

Regards, Bob Sundstrom
ixoreus at home.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lyles" <davidl at hevanet.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Blue Jays


> I often have both Steller's and Scrub Jays in my backyard, south of
> downtown Portland, at the same time. Both seem to be common in many
> places in the Willamette valley. The third jay species I have seen in
> Oregon is the Gray Jay, which I have seen in the (mostly southern)
> Cascade mountains. These are the jays that have been the "camp
> robbers" on backpacking trips.
>
> And to pass on a point made by Dennis Paulson several years ago in
> reply to a post of mine to Tweeters, it is the Steller's (not
> Stellar's) Jay.
>
> Cheers,
> David Lyles
> Portland OR