Climate Change
Sep. 23rd, 2025 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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birdfeedingThis 'blue-green jay' may be the first climate change-created bird hybrid found in nature. Here's why that's good news
Joined by his faculty advisor, integrative biology professor Tim Keitt, Stokes confirmed that the bird was, in fact, a male offspring of a green jay mother and a blue jay father.
Marc Airhart, who interviewed Stokes for the University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences, jokingly referred to it as a “grue jay” — but the hybrid does not have an official name.
The grue jay is cool, but it is long preceded by the grolar bear (aka pizzly bear).
Joined by his faculty advisor, integrative biology professor Tim Keitt, Stokes confirmed that the bird was, in fact, a male offspring of a green jay mother and a blue jay father.
Marc Airhart, who interviewed Stokes for the University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences, jokingly referred to it as a “grue jay” — but the hybrid does not have an official name.
The grue jay is cool, but it is long preceded by the grolar bear (aka pizzly bear).
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Date: 2025-09-23 07:49 pm (UTC)