Summer Tanager. Summer tanagers are all red birds, without the black wings and tail of the scarlet tanager, and no black eye mask like cardinals. Look for them in southern states. They are not as ...

A rare yellow northern cardinal spotted in Alabama in 2018 became an internet sensation and opened millions of people’s eyes to a spectacular power of genetic mutation. Now, Geoffrey Hill, an ...

Every year without fail, several emails with accompanying photos come to my attention asking about creatures that look like weird black-headed cardinals. Some queries wonder if the photos depict a ...

How to tell if it's really a yellow cardinal. The bird will have a yellow body with a black mask around its eyes and beak. Basically, it will look like a red cardinal except with yellow feathers.

Mr. Yellow, a cardinal with a rare genetic mutation spotted in central Alabama in 2018 and 2019, sits watch over two baby birds that are possibly his offspring. Jeremy Black Photography ...

Bird watchers are flocking to a small Alabama city this week to catch a glimpse of a cardinal with a one-in-a-million genetic mutation that causes its bright red feathers to be a striking shade of … ...

On February 17, Black spent five hours scouring Stephenson's backyard with his camera and a pair of binoculars—but after seeing only red cardinals, he withdrew to Stephenson's screened-in porch.

In late January, something odd appeared on Charlie Stephenson’s bird feeder in Alabaster, Alabama. It looked just like a cardinal—the bright crimson bird common across the eastern United ...

A rare yellow cardinal once again has been spotted by a bird watcher, this time in Theodore, Alabama. Karem Maldonado has nine bird feeders scattered about her yard. Normally, Maldonado doesn't ...

A Tennessee photographer caught a glimpse of a spectacular and rare bird. Knoxville Ornithological Society President Jimmy Tucker told WBIR he heard about a rare yellow cardinal sighting in Roane ...

Black Cardinal Meaning Though black cardinals look like this songbird, they actually aren't cardinals at all; rather, they are silky-flycatchers, a type of passerine bird.