Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare hybrid (center) identified in a San Antonio suburb is the result of mating between a male blue jay (left) and a female ...

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 ...

A woman in a San Antonio suburb took a photo one spring morning in 2021 of a bird in her yard that looked odd. Its feathers were as blue as any Blue Jay, but its body patterns and chunky black mask ...

Researchers have for the first time confirmed that a blue jay and a green jay have mated in the wild to produce a rare hybrid with mixed features. Spotted by a birder named Donna in her backyard in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, an offspring of a blue jay and a green jay was found in the wild, researchers say. A Bexar County resident saw ...

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 ...