It looks a ton like the California Scrub Jay: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/302371821-1... (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Scrub-Jay/pho...)
I wish black cap and Carolina chickadees would do this to further increase the confusion around them.
Bleen Jay. It's more blue than green, and and also forms a mildly amusing pun, which is good for marketing.
It is a grue jay only if it will devour you in the dark.
It seems we have failed to properly educate our children.
It is ignorance like this this makes me believe that civilization is doomed.
But we only have ourselves to blame
Why would it devour you in the dark?
It’s a reference to the classic interactive fiction game Zork: https://zork.fandom.com/wiki/Grue
Trying to be both blue and green so perhaps.. a mockingjay..
A gray jay sounds about right.
I get that the changing weather might change their habitual latitudes but there was and is always some "boundary" between the two, no? So there was always a boundary but it moves north or south depending on warming or cooling climates (these birds have been around for millions of years). How did they only mate now?
> How did they only mate now?
A lot of the differences between species is due to behavior issues, not actual physical difficulty. It's likely that both species of jay mate at different times or display different mating signals. They've been separated for something like 75 million years which leaves plenty of time for their behaviors to change.
Dull Jay.
It will be interesting to learn if the hybrids are fertile or not
They seem to think so in this article https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/10/21/blue-jay-green-ja...
I'm disappointed this wasn't a Nelson Goodman reference.
