Despite their colorful appearance, blue jays are actually in the family Corvidae, the same as crows and ravens. These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail and weigh under 3.5 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A new bird, discovered just outside of San Antonio, Texas, is taking the birding world by storm. Part blue jay, part green jay: the “grue jay”. “We feel that it really is kind of a ...

There was something strange about the turquoise-colored songbird flying around San Antonio in 2023. With its black-and-white tail bands and its jeering honk, it somewhat resembled and sounded like a ...

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that's the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay's mating, say it may be among the first examples of a ...

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A male blue jay on the left, a female green jay on the right and a hybrid offspring of the two species in the center. Travis Maher / Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Macaulay Library (left); Brian Stokes ...

SAN ANTONIO (WKRC/CBS Newspath) - A rare hybrid bird, the offspring of a male blue jay and a female green jay, has been identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas. This unusual bird is believed to ...

A new bird has been discovered in the San Antonio area, a hybrid between two species whose ranges are starting to overlap, in part likely due to climate change, researchers say. Researchers at the ...

Researchers have found a new "grue jay" bird in South Texas, a hybrid between blue and gray jay birds that is likely the result of shifting weather patterns and climate change.

Nature gives us one incredible surprise after another. If you're a bird lover and have been admiring bluebirds, jays, or barn ...

Ornithologists and hobby birders alike were thrilled over the hybridization. Scientists are continuing to find ways in which climate change is impacting animal species and ecosystems. Warming ...