A bird-watcher in Pennsylvania snapped a photo of a “one-in-a-million” encounter with a northern cardinal that was half male and half female. Jamie Hill, 69, who has been bird-watching for ...

Ornithologist Daniel Klem said that the cardinal Hill spotted is a gynandromorph, meaning half the bird’s body is male and the other half is female. It’s a split that happens very early on in ...

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Hill, 69, who has been watching birds for 48 years, said he'd never seen one comparable with the bilateral gynandromorph northern cardinal. "This has been the most exciting," he said. Contact Dana ...

ERIE, Pa. – Longtime birder Jamie Hill knew he'd come across something rare.. The Waterford, Pennsylvania, man saw a northern cardinal that appeared to be male on its right side and female on ...

The bird exhibited the typical bright red color of a male cardinal on the left half of its body, and the dull brownish-gray appearance of a female cardinal on the right half. We observed the bird ...

While birds have a pair of ovaries, the only functional one is on the left side — which in this cardinal is female, so it is theoretically possible that it could lay eggs, Dr. Hooper said.

More specifically, the bird has the brownish-gray feathered appearance of a female cardinal on its right side and that of a male cardinal's red feathers on its left side.

Male cardinals are red. Female cardinals are tan. The odd bird that's been roosting outside John and Shirley Caldwell's kitchen in Erie, Pennsylvania, is an even split of both. Divided down the ...

That means one should easily support a cardinal, a bird that typically weighs between 1.48 and 1.72 ounces (42 and 49 grams). ( Learn why scientists say spider silk is one of the most versatile ...

Exclusive video reveals half-male, half-female cardinal Birdwatchers in Erie, Pennsylvania, found an incredibly uncommon bird—in their backyard. ANIMALS WEIRD & WILD ...