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Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers say ...

A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel

The rare bird, spotted in a backyard in Texas, is the first known blue jay-green jay hybrid in the wild, according to a new ...

Rare bird spotted in Texas, blue jay and green jay hybrid, influenced by rain, hot weather

Blue-and-green jay hybrid is turning heads in San Antonio, Texas, after weather-driven habitat shifts brought 2 species ...

Climate change results in rare hybrid bird between green jay and blue jay: Study

Warming temperatures have prompted a rare hybridization of a blue jay and green jay, according to researchers at the ...

Shock as world’s rarest parrot declared EXTINCT is hatched at zoo in major breakthrough

A RARE blue parrot declared extinct in the wild has hatched for the first time at a conservation centre, sparking new hope ...

Rare Hybrid Bird Discovered in Texas Backyard

Scientists in Texas confirmed the existence of a rare hybrid bird, the offspring of a green jay and a blue jay. It’s one of the first known cases of climate change driving two species into the same ...
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Mystery of the lost parakeet: Bird flies away but is miraculously found

Jan. 2—Austin Middle School sixth-grader Nathan Roman needed a miracle after his blue female parakeet Azul flew away and disappeared in early December. Ten days before Christmas, he got one. The ...