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 ...

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.

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 ...

Data from eBird, a global database of bird sightings, shows an abundance of blue jay sightings around the Upstate for 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, with no substantial differences between ...