Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new blue-and-green jay hybrid was discovered in San Antonio, Texas. Changing weather caused the habitats of blue jays and green jays to overlap, leading to the hybrid. This is the first observed ...

Scientists are continuing to find ways in which climate change is impacting animal species and ecosystems. Warming temperatures have prompted a rare hybridization of a blue jay and green jay, ...

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 ...