When a homeowner in northern Florida looked out at her bird feeders the first weekend in March, she thought she saw a red-headed woodpecker. There was a brown bird nibbling at the wild bird seed with ...

Every once in a while, a genetic anomaly will occur in the animal world that blows scientists’ minds. Take, for example, the exotic bird in the image above. It’s “gynandromorphic,” which means a ...

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 middle ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinary, vibrantly colored tropical bird with "female" feathers down one side of its body and "male" feathers down the other. Female green honeycreepers ...

Bird banders in Cook Township banded a one-in-a million bird — a rose-breasted grosbeak with half its body looking like a male and the other half, a female. The bird was banded on Sept. 24 at Carnegie ...

An extremely rare 'mutant' bird that is half male and half female has been discovered in Colombia. Scientists have revealed that a bird with half its feathers green and the other blue features both ...

NEW YORK - Colombia is a bird watcher’s paradise. Its stunningly diverse ecosystems – which include mountain ranges, mangrove swamps, Caribbean beaches and Amazonian rainforests – are home to more ...

Biologists recently made a "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery of a bird that's male on the right side and female on the left. Researchers captured the bird, a rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ...

Thanks to the developmental fusion of male-female bird twins into one individual, this northern cardinal is half red and half tan -- split lengthwise down its middle -- and is half male and half ...

A homeowner in north Florida spotted the rare bird when it stopped for something to eat at her bird feeder, she told McClatchy News. Nick Nicholson via Unsplash When a homeowner in northern Florida ...