How does one reconcile the story saying these are clever for birds and hard to capture with the photo showing an example sitting tamely in a person’s hand? This same story shows up multiple places without more info.
Kaibeezy•4mo ago
Here is the underlying paper:
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion
B. Stokes, T. Keitt, Ecology and Evolution, 10 Sep 2025
stevenwoo•4mo ago
Kaibeezy•4mo ago
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion
B. Stokes, T. Keitt, Ecology and Evolution, 10 Sep 2025
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72148