By Lynn Boulton

The Great Basin Bird Observatory has an app where you can enter your observations of pinyon jays. Pinyon jays are in serious decline--their numbers are down 83% from the late 1960s. As their name indicates, they rely on pinyon woodlands such as we have in the Eastern Sierra. They forage on pinyon pine nuts, but they also eat insects. Like the Clark's Nutcracker, they cache the pine nuts. Those they don't come back for might turn into pinyon pine trees. You might also find them in flatter, wooded shrub land areas or see them pass over a mountain. They might travel hundreds of miles out of their home range looking for food resources in the fall and winter. Learn more from the Great Basin Bird Observatory. The High Country News also has a good article about their plight.

Here's how you can download and use the Survey 123 app for this project. It's easy to use.