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Aphelecoma
Sept. 1
1 mi SW Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz 1.
Large group of jaup, including 3 or 4 adults
and perhaps a half dozen first-year birds, was
observed moving along a slope, back and forth,
over an area apparently regularly inhabited
by an established pair. Several chases were
noted, also two actual clashes, one of them
resulting in screaming from the group. Entire
group very active and noisy. The entire sequence
in all essentials
resembled several such sequences noted in the
Berkeley Hill jaups (see Canyon Road notes).
The frog note seems to be given by the ♀
when the ♂ calls kra-kra-kra excitedly. This
was observed in this sequence described above,
in the morning,
and also later when a pair was found on the NW facing slope, the male flew down slope calling
and the ♀ frog-noted at once, ending the
note with [illegible] inflected notes, ike-ike.