MSNBC is calling this a gynandromorph cardinal but if you ask me, it’s got a whole host of issues. Sure it looks half male and half female–but what’s with the lack of pigment in some of the breast feathers? Check out more photos of this pigment missing, half male, half female cardinal here.
A birder supposedly got lost while trekking down a half mile trail looking for wood ducks at the Jean Lafitte Barataria Preserve. There’s a more detailed account of the story here but it still leaves me with more questions than answers.
AWESOME goshawk video:
And here’s a very strange shade-grown coffee commercial via Bird Watcher’s Digest promoting Birds and Beans.
ABA Young Birders Camp to Texas cancelled, other camps still available. As is their Half Moon Bay conference.
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Ahhh…no awesome goshawk video to be seen!
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Wow! Gotta love BBC! Thanks for sharing the video!
I agree about that cardinal having issues, but it doesn’t look like it’s half male and half female to me. It looks like the feathers on it’s “female” side are just light grey (or barely pigmented), not that beautiful warm yellowy-brown of your typical female cardinal, so it seems more likely that it just has a weird pigmentation issue.