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8 Birds That Look Like Blue Jays (And How to Spot the Difference)

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 ...
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Let's get to know blue jays

Blue jays can live up to seven years and, believe it or not, their feathers aren't blue. Their colouring is the result of the ...
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Meet the ‘grue jay’: A rare, hybrid bird has been discovered in the US

(CNN) - Researchers in Texas say they’ve identified the first-known wild hybrid between a blue jay and a green jay. According to a study published earlier this month in the journal “Ecology and ...
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A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel

(CNN) — What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in ...
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Meet the 'grue jay,' a natural hybrid between the blue jay and green jay

Host Peter O’Dowd talks with Brian Stokes, graduate student in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Texas at Austin, about the rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and green jay, seen ...