New research has found that birds that have adapted to mountainous regions may be at risk amid a shifting climate, but ...

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, ...

A rare hybrid bird identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas (center panel, credit: Brian Stokes) is the result of mating between a male blue jay (left, credit: Travis Maher/Cornell Lab of ...

Cava is opening its first Greater Cincinnati location in a shuttered Holtman's Donuts spot. Former golf pro accused of $883K theft at local country club remains at large in Mexico The couple left the ...

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 ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

It wasn't just a unique color variation—it was something far more unusual. The bird, confirmed through genetic testing, was a wild hybrid between a green jay and a blue jay, the first ever documented ...

Two years ago, Brian Stokes—a PhD student studying green jays at the University of Texas at Austin—came across an image on social media featuring a strange animal sighted in a suburb northeast of San ...

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 ...

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