The subdominant birds “have a very high mortality rate,” noted Barnard. Although gray jays are not uncommon in Vermont and New Hampshire, there’s reason to think the species is losing ground. Barnard ...

Here's a fun question. What do you call the offspring when a blue jay and a green jay mate? Well, in Texas, when one such bird was discovered, the name that the public has decided on is grue jay. But ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with ornithologist David Bird about his effort to make the gray jay the national bird of Canada. The race to choose which... A Push For The Gray Jay To Take Its Perch As ...

Researchers have found a new "grue jay" bird in South Texas, a hybrid between blue and gray jay birds that is likely the result of shifting weather patterns and climate change. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR ...

We were shocked this past week to learn that Canada doesn't have a national bird. Can you imagine all that landscape, all that nature and no bird to own it? Well, the Royal Canadian Geographical ...