Naturally is a column written by a rotating cast of experts at the NJ Audubon. Within the past two months, I’ve had two ...

T here’s just something special about seeing a blue colored bird.Blue jays, bluebirds, indigo buntings — their feathers brighten feeders when they swoop in for a meal, and they stand out when ...

Blue Jays squawk a lot. ... He served as president of the Houston Audubon Society 1989-1991 and purchased the North American Rare Bird Alert for Houston Audubon in 1990.

Unlike most blue birds, which exhibit sexual dichromatism, male and female blue jays share the same bright colors. This North American flyer ranges throughout North America. 5.

Despite their colorful appearance, blue jays are actually in the genus corvidae, the same as crows and ravens. These birds are typically 9 to 12 inches long from beak to tail and weigh under 3.5 ...

Blue jays’ year-round presence in area backyards can be misleading, for they do migrate — just not out of North America, and mostly not out of the eastern half of the U.S.

While the North Country is not exactly the tropics, we do have our share of exotically-colored birds. Blue creatures, for example, are rare in nature but we have the bluebird, the blue jay and the ...

Pairs of all North American subspecies hold ... Both the Steller’s jay and the blue jay have conspicuous crests and ... —From the National Geographic book Complete Birds of North America, 2006.

The mass disappearance of North American birds is a dire warning about the planet’s well-being. ... A quarter of all blue jays have disappeared, along with almost half of all Baltimore orioles.

Scientists say that Earth may have entered a period of "mass-extinction." — -- A new report published by North American Bird Conservation Initiative says that 37 percent of all migratory bird ...