A backyard bird in suburban San Antonio turned out to be something extraordinary: the natural offspring of a green jay and a ...

Mary Alice Tartler knows her birds, but she didn’t know this one. She had arrived at her friend’s house on Hilton Head Plantation this past winter to photograph humming birds that frequented a bird ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild ...

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, ...