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Rare colorful hybrid jay could be result of climate change, study finds

The Washington Post · last updated

To a novice, the bird looks just like any other: two wings, a beak; its vivid blue coloring offset by a white chest and a black face.

But when Brian Stokes, a graduate student in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Texas at Austin, spotted it in a grainy photo posted in a local birdwatching Facebook group, he knew something was off.