Marshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

 

 

 

 

Scrub Jay

 

Latin name: Aphelocoma coerulescens

Scrub Jays appear slimmer than most other jays and have long, narrow tails. Their contrasting plumage pattern is distinctive. These jays inhabit a variety of bushy areas from chaparral, open woodlands, and residential areas in the Pacific States to piñion juniper and scrub-oak in the interior West and humid scrub-oak communities in Florida.

Scrub Jays often fly long distances from one conspicous perch to another. Their flight involves vigorous flapping, frequently interrupted as the bird drops in a shallow arc on stiffly spread wings and tail or on closed wings.

 

Description:11-13" (28-33 cm). There is a fair amount of geographical variation in this crestless species; differences in size and in the shade and extent of blue occur on the upperparts and underparts. The upperparts, including the wings and tail, are rich, deep blue, except for the back, which is a contrasting brown to gray-brown. The throat and upper breast are whitish with narrow, bluish streaking, boldly separated from the gray underparts by a jagged, blue to blue-gray necklace; this necklace may be diffuse and incomplete, depending on race. The undertail coverts are whitish to bluish, varying among the subspecies.

 

Voice : A very harsh, often-repeated ike-ike-ike, with slight upward inflection; longer, rough, slightly metallic, sharply rising iennuk; rough, rapidly repeated quick-quick-quick; also several usually raucous variations.

 

Similar Species : Gray-breasted Jay stouter, usually shows less contrast and duller coloring; mask paler; lacks white eyebrows, white on throat, and bluish necklace. Immature Gray-breasted stouter, with shorter, less rounded tails. Calls and habitats different.

 

Range: Resident from southwestern Washington to southwestern Wyoming and Colorado, south to Baja California, cent ral Texas, and into southern Mexico. Also isolated populations on Santa Cruz Island off California, and in cent ral Florida.

 

Common Raven	Latin name: Corvus Coras	Yupik name: Tulukaruq
Northwestern Crow	Latin name: Corvus caurinus	Yupik name: Tulukaruq
Scrub Jay	Latin name: Aphelocoma coerulescens
Blue Jay	Latin name: Cyanocitta cristata
Clark's Nutcracker	Latin Name: Nucifraga Columbiana
Black-billed Magpie	Latin name: Pica pica	Yupik name: Qalqerayak
Stellers Jay	Latin Name: Cyanocitta stefferi
Gray Jay	Latin name: Pertsoreus Canadensis	Yupik name: Neqaig, Kisirallerr

Profiles of Raven's Family

Raven's Yupik Stories Student Encounters

Raven's Yupik Stories Original Student Folktales

Raven's Yupik Stories from our community

Other Raven Yupik And Inupiat Tales

Raven's Athabaskan Tales

Raven's Stories from S.E. Alaska

More About Raven

 

Christmastime Tales Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 1996	Christmastime Tales II Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 1998	Christmastime Tales III Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992	Summertime Tails II 1993	Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995	Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996	Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999	Signs of the Times November 1996	Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993	Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes
M&M Monthly
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997	Happy Easter! March/April 1998	Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998	Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000	Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition	Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay	Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska	Poems of Hooper Bay	Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord	It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997	People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall	Marshall Village PROFILE	Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995	Bird Stories from Scammon Bay	The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996	Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998	Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997	Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves	Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

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