Species arrived from the American West around 2 million years ago, nurtures Florida’s unique elfin oak forests ...

Four conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed a request in federal court today to defend critical Endangered Species Act protections for the imperiled Florida scrub jay.

The Pacific Legal Foundation says the Endangered Species Act does not apply to species — such as the Florida bird — found in ...

Realtors tell WINK News development has been stunted in some areas of Southwest Florida and it’s all because of a bird called Scrub Jays. To build on land in designated Scrub Jay habitats ...

Florida’s state bird ... Development interests because scrub-jays are a threatened species and need a lot of scrub land to be happy, scrub flatland that just begs to be clearcut down to the ...

The threatened Florida scrub-jay is the only bird that lives exclusively ... because they worried it would make it harder to develop land where the tiny, scrappy bird is found nesting.