Aphelocoma Series
2 DRIVING MODES WITH 2.4 RC
Kids on the single plastic seat (1 safety belt) can easily operate the electric 4-wheeler forward/backward by the soft-start button, functional steering wheel, and foot pedal. Parents can also handle the vehicle with 2.4G RC (3 speeds) for interaction and safety.
SAFE BATTERY ASSURANCE
Powered by a UL-certificated 12V rechargeable battery that can ensure the longevity of 1-3 years, the kids Rover including power display ensures long-running (for about 1-2 hours) after a full charge. After the first use, recommend to charging 8 hours but not more than 12 hours.
LICENSED RIDE ON GIFT FOR KIDS
As a licensed replica of Range Rover, this 12V Kids motorized car with an iconic grilling front, opening high doors, and working front/rear LED lights is a perfect gift for boys and girls (3-6 years old) to enjoy realistic cruise outdoors.
BENEFICIAL ENTERTAINMENT WITH MUSIC
Not just to improve motor skills, the toddler ride on with lights also allows kids to play the inbuilt songs, stories, and early educational materials for endless fun. The horn sounds help to deliver the authentic coming.
CHARACTERISTICS
The Chipmunk is a member of the family Mammalia, Rodentia and Sciuridae. It is also known as the Striped Squirrel, the Timber Tiger and the Mini-bear. The body length among most Chipmunks ranges from 5.5 to 6.3 inches and the tail length is 5 Inches. Chipmunks typically weigh about 0.02 pounds and live about 5 to 10 years. They have small but prominent ears which face forwards, and small eyes on the sides of their heads. Most wild Chipmunks are lively.
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CHARACTERISTICS
The California Scrub Jay is a medium-sized bird, approximately 11–12 inches in length, with a 15 inch wingspan and about 2.8 ounces in weight. It has a blue head, wings, and tail, a gray-brown back, grayish underparts, and white eyebrows. The throat is whitish with a blue necklace.
RANGE AND HABITAT
California Scrub Jays are found from Washington State south through California and western Nevada near Reno to the west of the Sierra Nevada. They inhabit areas of low scrub, preferring pinon-juniper forests, oak woods, and edges of mixed evergreen forests. They can also be found in suburban gardens and backyards.
DIET
California Scrub Jays are omnivores. They feed on small animals, such as frogs and lizards, eggs and young of other birds, insects, and (particularly in winter) grains, nuts, and berries. They will also eat fruit and vegetables growing in backyards.
BEHAVIOR
Habits and Lifestyle
California Scrub Jays are social birds that are active during the day. They usually forage on the ground in pairs, family groups, or small non-kin groups, outside of the breeding season. California Scrub Jays store food in scattered caches within their territories and are able to recover the hidden caches even after long periods of time. In the process of collecting and storing this food, they often plan ahead in choosing cache sites to provide adequate food volume and variety for the future. Due to their accurate observational memories, these birds may steal food from caches made by other jays and may also steal acorns from acorn woodpecker caches. California Scrub Jays are playful and noisy in their nature. Their call or “screech” is described as “harsh and scratchy”. They also utter loud and harsh quay-quay-quay calls.
Mating Habits
California Scrub Jays are monogamous and form pair bonds that last for many years. They breed from March to April. To attract a female, the male performs a courtship display; he hops around her with an erected head and fanned tail dragging. When the pair is formed, the female starts to construct the nest which is usually located low in trees or bushes, 3.3-32.8 ft. During the nest construction, the male guards the female from the nearest perch. The nest is sturdy, with an outside diameter of 13-23 in, constructed on a platform of twigs with moss and dry grasses lined with fine roots and hair. The female lays 4 to 6 eggs with two common shell color variations: pale green with irregular, olive-colored spots or markings; and pale grayish-white to green with reddish-brown spots. The female incubates the eggs for about 16 days. The chicks are altricial; they hatch naked, helpless, and with eyes closed. The chicks start off fully gray. The older they get, the more they turn blue. On their heads, chicks tend to have a red crest that resembles a comb which they will lose on day seven. The young usually leave the nest about 18 days after hatching and remain with their parents for about five months. They become reproductively mature after about 1 year of age.
The Chipmunk is a member of the family Mammalia, Rodentia and Sciuridae. It is also known as the Striped Squirrel, the Timber Tiger and the Mini-bear. The body length among most Chipmunks ranges from 5.5 to 6.3 inches and the tail length is 5 inches. Chipmunks typically weigh about 0.02 pounds and live about 5 to 10 years. They have small but prominent ears which face forwards, small eyes on the sides of their heads. Most wild Chipmunks are lively.
The Red Squirrel, a member of the Sciuridae, is an arboreal, omnivorous rodent often referred to as a Forest Seeder and folklore as the Devil King Squirrel.
The Arizona Gray Squirrel, also known as the American Gray Squirrel, is a member of the family Rodentia and Sciuridae. It is small in size, with gray fur and a belly between white and cream. It has long ears, no tufts of fur and a fluffy tail edged in white. The body is about 16-20 inches long and weighs up to 1.4 pounds.
The Rock Squirrel, also known as Sao Maozi or Stone Mouse, belongs to the rodent and is a species in the family Sciuridae. The most common natural predators of the Rock Squirrel include bobcats, owls, eagles and snakes. Though the Rock Squirrel is cute, alert, and courageous, it is still considered a pest due to its habit of destroying crops.
The Abert’s Squirrel is a member of the genus Sciurus with a body length of 18-22.8 inches, a tail length of 7.5-9.8 inches and a weight of 2.2 pounds, and can live up to 10 years in the wild. Its most distinctive feature is tassels of fur about 0.8-1.2 inches long at the tip of its ears, which looks very interesting. In addition, it is alert and agile.
Natural Sightings: Waiting out the Storm
Carol Lundstrom took this photo of two California Scrub Jays sheltering in an Arroyo Willow during a light snowstorm at Tehachapi Mountain Park.
California Scrub Jays (Aphelocoma californicus) are one of the most noticeable birds of the oak woodlands, riparian canyons and chaparral shrublands of the Tehachapi Mountains. Their raucous call gave rise to the Nuwä name for these birds: Cho-iikizh, which is pronounced choh-EEK-izh.
Jays are very smart, and will quickly learn if an area resident is willing to provide peanuts in the shell or other some treat. If they are hungry they will eat such a prize immediately, but they often cache it for later.
Jays have an amazing memory, and are able to find most of the assorted nuts and seeds that they cache. Not all of them, however, and for that reason, jays are often responsible for lots of trees getting planted, as acorns or pine nuts that they’ve hidden in the top soil or leaf duff get rained and snowed on, and then germinate and sprout in the spring.
Jays are very suspicious, rightfully so, of their neighbors, and if they think they’ve been watched as they bury a nut, they will wait a few minutes, dig it back up, and transfer it to a new location that they feel is more secretive.
California Scrub Jays can sometimes be seen standing on the back of deer, gleaning for ticks or other parasites. They will also help themselves to deer hair as nesting material in the spring when the deer are shedding.
NATURAL SIGHTINGS is a regular feature of the Tehachapi News edited by Jon Hammond which showcases photos of the natural beauty that enhances the quality of life in Tehachapi. If you have a good quality image of plants, animals, insects, trees, birds, weather phenomena, etc., taken in the Tehachapi area, you may submit it to the Tehachapi News for possible publication.
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