Scrub Jay

Four conservation groups are fighting to keep the Florida scrub jay on a federal list of threatened species. They filed to intervene in a lawsuit that could have repercussions nationwide.

Expanded development and lack of prescribed burns have been hurting scrub jay habitats throughout Florida.

The mockingbird is Florida's state bird. These students are saying that honor should go to the Florida scrub-jay.

No more than 9,500 scrub jays are believed to be flitting about Florida, the only place in the world where the blue-and-grayish-brown birds can be…