Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

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

A rare bird alert on the eBird app led University of Texas researchers to discover a rare hybrid from a blue jay and green jay mating.

Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay

The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers say

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

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Rare blue-and-green hybrid jay spotted in Texas is offspring of birds whose lineages split 7 million years ago

The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.

A New Bird, Called a Grue Jay, Was Just Discovered in Texas

Biologists in Texas say they’ve discovered a new bird that they believe is a hybrid of two existing species. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have named the new bird a “grue jay.”  According to a press release, they believe the bird is one of the first known examples of a hybrid between a blue jay and a green jay. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NaturalSciences @ UT (@texasscience) “We think it’s the first observed …

Meet Grue Jay: Rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay born of climate change

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 appeared borrowed from another bird. Not understanding what she was looking at, she posted pictures and released them on the internet. Her sighting was noticed by Brian Stokes, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student studying Green Jays. He h…