An ordinary day turned extraordinary when a baby blue jay was found alone after a nest mishap. Its fragile state sparked a ...
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 ...
From the bold Blue Jay repping Canada’s team to an *opp* like the Baltimore Oriole, meet the feathered characters that bring ...
The mystery bird was observed following a flock of blue jays, making similar calls. But it also produced the clicks and rattling vocalizations of a green jay.(Brian Stokes/University of Texas via CNN ...
Host Peter O'Dowd talks with Brian Stokes, graduate student in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Texas at ...
This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as For the First Time, Wild Blue Jay and Green Jay Produce Colorful Hybrid Offspring in Texas. It kinda looks like a blue jay, but it‘s a ...
It wasn't just a unique color variation—it was something far more unusual. The bird, confirmed through genetic testing, was a wild hybrid between a green jay and a blue jay, the first ever documented ...
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 ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new bird, discovered just outside of San Antonio, is taking the birding world by storm. Part Blue Jay, part Green Jay: the “Grue Jay”. The “Grue Jay” is slightly paler than its dad ...
What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...