The large, colorful blue jay is a common sight for backyard bird watchers, and its range makes it a regular fixture in backyards and parks all over the entire eastern half the the United States. For ...

Blue jays are one of the first birds we learn to identify as kids. You can find them all over the country, but not a single state has chosen the blue jay as its state bird. This may be because blue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Here's a fun question.

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 ...