After 64 years, Texas bird watchers celebrated a rare sighting of a double-striped thick-knee bird in Wilson County on Sunday, Sept. 14. The bird was spotted on private property near Nixon, Texas, ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

In Texas, biologists have documented an extraordinary bird — the natural hybrid offspring of a green jay and a blue jay. Once separated by millions of years of evolution and distinct ranges, the two ...

After the news broke that the bird was visible, bird watchers across Texas and other neighboring states went to watch the animal This was the first time since 1961 that the animal was spotted in Texas ...

Bird watchers across Texas drove to Nixon to get a glimpse of the double-striped thick-knee bird on Sunday, Sept. 14. Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Bird watchers across Texas drove to Nixon to get a glimpse of the double-striped thick-knee bird on Sunday, Sept. 14. A double-striped thick-knee bird was spotted on private property in Wilson County, ...