Our friends at Audubon Magazine have a nice overview of the new official bird checklist from the American Ornithologists' Union. Jumping out at us is the new split of the Western Scrub Jay into two species, the California Scrub Jay and the Woodhouse's Scrub Jay. The California Scrub Jay isn't a total endemic, however, covering ground from Baja to Washington State. But, hey, we'll be happy to call it our own. And we'll continue to remind our friends that the spunky blue bird they saw in Los Angeles was not a Blue Jay.