A backyard bird in suburban San Antonio turned out to be something extraordinary: the natural offspring of a green jay and a ...

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 ...

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 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.

Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that’s the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay’s mating, say it may be among the first examples of a ...

A current strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has become a global problem. The virus has affected many millions of birds, some other animal species, and a small ...

Visitors at an Oregon park enjoyed quite the surprise this spring when two totally different types of geese decided to play house. According to A-Z Animals, park ranger William McDonald was doing his ...

A hybrid yellow-rumped warbler and black-throated blue warbler was discovered on Hilton Head. It’s the first hybrid of this kind ever recorded. Mary Alice Tartler Mary Alice Tartler knows her birds, ...