A talent for remembering faces isn’t the only similarity Blue Jays have with crows: The birds have also been known to use tools. While it was long thought that the species d ...

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 ...

There was something strange about the turquoise-colored songbird flying around San Antonio in 2023. With its black-and-white tail bands and its jeering honk, it somewhat resembled and sounded like a ...

There was a time when Blue and Green Jays were distinct entities. A resident of San Antonio, Texas, recently photographed a unique hybrid bird, the surprising offspring of a Green Jay and Blue Jay.

A male blue jay on the left, a female green jay on the right and a hybrid offspring of the two species in the center. Travis Maher / Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Macaulay Library (left); Brian Stokes ...