Plumage is a term that refers to the characteristics of a bird's feathers. Shown here is the normal plumage of an adult northern cardinal. The female northern cardinal is often thought of as not ...
A birdwatching couple in northwestern Pennsylvania has documented one of nature's most rare and elusive occurrences. Jeffrey and Shirley Caldwell, two experienced birdwatchers based in Erie, lured of ...
Editor's note: The video above is from Feb. 2021, and features Andrea Tims who runs a bird sanctuary in Maine. A Pennsylvania man hopped on Facebook, ecstatic to tell everyone he knew about the ...
Editor's note: Jamie Hill was misidentified in a previous version of this story. Longtime birder Jamie Hill of Waterford knew he'd come across something rare when he saw the northern cardinal that ...
There’s no flitting around it, this is a rare bird. A cardinal that appears to be half-female and half-male was recently spotted in Pennsylvania. Jamie Hill, a birdwatcher for 48 years, documented the ...
A rare half-male, half-female cardinal sighting last week in western Pennsylvania has birders and scientists across the state a-twitter. Seasoned birder Jamie Hill, of Waterford, Erie County, snagged ...
James R. Hill III has marveled at the feathered animals for 48 years, but on Saturday he saw a 'one in a million' bird with bright red like a male cardinal on one side and brownish white like a female ...
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Many people assume that male songbirds are the ones doing the crooning. But more than 660 species of songbirds are known in which the females sing as well. And there are still 3,500 species of ...
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