When a Gazette reporter learned the unsettling lore behind one particular bird, she decided to reframe the narrative and ...

The call of a blue jay in the trees isn’t unusual. But the call of a blue jay that was, until recently, a family member, is. ...

Even though Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, it has a lot of different habitats, from woods to wetlands, to ...

The photo is special because this is one of the rare times the Blue Jay was still enough for a photo. The camera I used is a Canon 7D Mark 2 with a 100-400 mm zoom lens.© Courtesy Linda Taylor ...

But not before they gave it a name. "Since he’s a blue jay, he needed a name that started with, like, blue — so that’s why we came up with the name Bluey," said Jakobien, who found the bird.

But not before they gave it a name. "Since he’s a blue jay, he needed a name that started with, like, blue — so that’s why we came up with the name Bluey," said Jakobien, who found the bird.