This jay occurs from Nevada south into Mexico in dry shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodland. Its muted blue plumage is set off by gray-brown and white.
The plumage is dusty blue with gray-brown and white. The head is rounded and crestless; compared with the California Scrub-Jay, the blue is dimmer, the necklace is nearly absent, and the bill is straighter and more pointed.
It eats mostly insects and fruit in spring and summer, then shifts toward nuts and seeds in fall and winter. Winter flocks sometimes form, while breeding pairs defend territories year-round.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.