Status: Protected under the MBTA and/or Section 3503 of the California Fish and Game Code1
- Healthy population
Habitat
- Parks, neighborhoods, and riverside woods near the Pacific Coast
- Nest site is in a shrub or tree
Feeding Behavior/Diet
- Forages on the ground and in trees
- Often harvests acorns and buries them
- Omnivorous. Diet varies with season. Eats a wide variety of insects, especially in summer. Winter diet may be mostly acorns and other seeds, nuts, and berries
- Also eats some rodents, eggs and young of other birds, and small reptiles and amphibians
Reproduction
- Eggs 3 to 5
- Incubation is by female, about 17-18 days
- Young leave the nest about 18-22 days after hatching
- One brood per year2
1 Protected under the MBTA and/or Section 3503 of the California Fish and Game Code
2 National Audubon Society