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 ...

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 ...

TEXAS, USA — Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered what may be the first vertebrate hybrid created by climate change, after two bird species expanded their ranges and met in ...

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 ...

What happens in the wild when sparks fly between a blue jay and a green jay? Until recently, no one had any idea. But then, in 2023, someone spotted a rare kind of visitor to a backyard outside of San ...

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 ...

A blue jay–green jay pairing is a ‘biological curveball’ Gavin M. Leighton, an associate professor of biology at Buffalo State University in Western New York who has researched trends in hybridization ...