Out of the sunlight, the blue tone dims. This blue jay certainly knows where the photographer is. Courtesy of Peter Schwarz Of course, they are actually black-and-white and blue jays.

A blue jay hunts for nuts and seeds in the forest at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Md., in February 2017. The blue jay is one of several year-round residents at the refuge.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

After a few test hops in the lawn and a test flight in her office, Farris returned the little blue jay back to the pecan tree she figured it fell from. Moments later, the bird’s parents swooped ...