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Illustration of a Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii) egg, 27.8 × 20.4 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Aphelocoma woodhouseii

  • 27.8 × 20.4 mm
  • Clutch: 1–5 eggs
Breeds in United States, Mexico

Pale green blotched with olive, or pale gray spotted with brown.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 50 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and Titmice (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 191, 1946).
Description
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Life History.
Clutch
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds.
Shape
Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).

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