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This new species may be the first bird hybrid created by climate change. Here's why that's a good thing

Brian Stokes is a “birder,” and his specialty is green jays. As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, Stokes spends his free time scrolling online, sleuthing around for bird ...
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Hilton Head birders identify a hybrid bird species. It's the first of it's kind.

Mary Alice Tartler knows her birds, but she didn't know this one. She had arrived at her friend's house on Hilton Head Plantation this past winter to photograph humming birds that frequented a bird ...
AOL

Rare bird alert leads to blue jay-green jay hybrid discovery in Texas

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 ...
Penn Live

A new hybrid of two bird species has been discovered in the US

What do you get when you cross an blue jay with a green jay? The answer, it seems, is a new bird hybrid that has been discovered in Texas, as reported by the University of Texas at Austin. Biologists ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

'First observed': Rare hybrid bird discovered in suburb

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 ...
KXAN

What’s a ‘Grue Jay’? Introducing the new hybrid love child of the Blue and Green Jays

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new bird, discovered just outside of San Antonio, is taking the birding world by storm. Part Blue Jay, part Green Jay: the “Grue Jay”. The “Grue Jay” is slightly paler than its dad ...
Houston Chronicle

This unusual hybrid found in Texas is the first of its kind in the wild

It wasn't just a unique color variation—it was something far more unusual. The bird, confirmed through genetic testing, was a wild hybrid between a green jay and a blue jay, the first ever documented ...