A talent for remembering faces isn’t the only similarity Blue Jays have with crows: The birds have also been known to use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Texas at Austin announced the discovery of a hybrid bird species UT biologists are linking in part to climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, an offspring of a blue jay and a green jay was found in the wild, researchers say. A Bexar County resident saw ...

You tend to take little blue herons for granted. Not that they aren’t beautiful birds – there are no ugly herons or egrets, except maybe cattle egrets – but little blues can be a little undramatic. As ...

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 ...

What Does a Blue Grosbeak Look Like? Any sighting of a blue grosbeak is a cause for celebration, because these beautiful birds just aren’t that common and they can be difficult to attract. Cinnamon to ...

TEXAS, USA — Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered what may be the first vertebrate hybrid created by climate change, after two bird species expanded their ranges and met in ...

Biologists are attributing this new hybrid bird to abnormal mating behavior to climate change BrianTravis Maher/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library, Stokes/University of Texas at Austin, Brien ...

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) took a closer look at the western bird known as the “blue grouse”and reclassified it into two separate species: the sooty grouse and the dusky grouse.