Brian Stokes knew he might be onto something when he saw an interesting bird show up on a social media post. “I quickly recognized that it wasn't a blue jay, at least a full blue jay,” said Stokes, a ...

Host Peter O'Dowd talks with Brian Stokes, graduate student in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Texas at ...

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 ...

An odd bird found in a Texas backyard is the offspring of two distantly related species, separated by 7 million years of evolution, whose ranges only recently began to overlap due to climate change, ...

A remarkable discovery in Texas has given bird enthusiasts and scientists something new to talk about, a hybrid bird born ...