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Rare bird alert leads to blue jay-green jay hybrid discovery in Texas
Climate change-driven range shifts caused blue jays and green jays to overlap near San Antonio, producing the first wild hybrid confirmed by genetic analysis, researchers said.
- Scientists in Texas confirmed the existence of a rare hybrid bird, the offspring of a green jay and a blue jay, due to overlapping habitats caused by climate change.
- The hybrid bird disappeared for a few years, then returned to a woman's yard in 2025, allowing researchers to study and confirm its hybrid identity.
- This hybrid bird is believed to be one of the first known cases of a hybrid animal arising in the wild due to recent shifts in climate, rather than human influence.
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Universal City woman discovers rare hybrid bird in her backyard
A Universal City woman discovered a rare hybrid bird in her backyard.Donna Currey, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, said she was sitting on her porch three years ago when she noticed a blue jay that looked a little different. “I’m looking and I am going, ‘Well, that’s a weird looking blue jay,” Currey said. “All the other blue jays I’ve seen, they have normal blue heads, and this one had an all-black head. And, I’m going, ‘Well, what happened?’…
·San Antonio, United States
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What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That was the subject of a new study on a "hybrid" bird never before seen in the wild. A discovery that immediately raised a new, more important question: why does this bird exist?
·Amsterdam, Netherlands
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