AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A new bird, discovered just outside of San Antonio, is taking the birding world by storm. Part Blue Jay, part Green Jay: the "Grue Jay".

"We feel that it really is kind of a unique event, a bellwether, if you will, that environments are changing very rapidly," said Professor Timothy Keitt, with the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas in Austin and one author on a new paper about the "Grue Jay."

Keitt studies the Green Jay, which has moved further north as a result of a changing climate. "One of the things that we were wondering is, when they encounter Blue Jays, would that stop this expansion? That they would be antagonistic to each other."

In 2023, we got an answer. A homeowner in the suburbs of San Antonio reported a mysterious bird. Brian Sto

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