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.

 

 

 

 

 

Stellers Jay

 

Latin Name: Cyanocitta stefferi

Closely related to the Blue Jay, the Steller's Jay is the only crested jay found in many areas west of the Rocky Mountains. This very dark bird is common in coniferous forests. Like some other members of its family, it is often very bold near human habitation and is thus familiar throughout its range.

 

Description

13" (33 cm). A very dark jay, the Steller's is black on the head, breast, and back and has a deep blue belly, tail, and wings. Most races show no white or contrasting areas of lighter color in the plumage, although inland races have a distinctive white eyebrow. This bird has a prominent crest, and the bill and legs are black.

 

Voice

A loud shook-shook-shook or shack-shack-shack.

 

Similar species

The Blue Jay, an eastern species, is paler blue, without black head, breast, and back; has white spots in wings and tail and whitish underparts with black breastband: crest shorter than in most Steller's Jays. Scrub and Gray-breasted jays paler overall, lack crest, rarely found in coniferous forest. Pinyon Jay stockier, shorter-tailed, and longer-billed: lacks crest.

 

Range

Western North America. Resident from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, east to Rocky Mountains, south in montane and coastal coniferous forests to Nicaragua.

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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