{"id":44352,"date":"2013-08-07T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:20","slug":"florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/vu-vulnerable\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This species qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a small and fragmented population and range, which continues to decline as a result of urban development and habitat loss and degradation, largely as a result of fire suppression. The species suffered a decline of &gt;25% during 1992-2010 (Boughton and Bowman 2011) and this decline is suspected to be continuing, owing to current management strategies and the on-going impacts of development in Florida leading to habitat conversion and fire suppression (which causes habitat degradation), compounded by edge effects (Breininger et al. 2009, 2010, Johnson et al. 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Reference :\u00a0Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-423-44352\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3677\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/img_5648-2.jpg\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" alt=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_5648-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3676\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/img_5636.jpg\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" alt=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_5636.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3675\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/img_5630.jpg\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" alt=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_5630.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3674\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/img_5625.jpg\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" alt=\"Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/florida-scrub-jay-aphelocoma-coerulescens-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_5625.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Florida Scrub-jay Aphelocoma coerulescens <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This species qualifies as Vulnerable because it has a small and fragmented population and range, which continues to decline as a result of urban development and habitat loss and degradation, largely as a result of fire suppression. The species suffered a decline of &gt;25% during 1992-2010 (Boughton and Bowman 2011) and this decline is suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":68770,"parent":42872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44352","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44352\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}