With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species. An inhabitant of Iowa marshlands, the yellow-head has a unique and ...

As feeder hosts puzzle over the bright yellow birds' seeming summertime absence, here's the story. The fluctuating populations result when northern birds move through in fall, feeding heavily ...

Now, Geoffrey Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn University who helped identify Alabama’s yellow cardinal, has released a 15-minute YouTube video breaking down the science behind that genetic ...

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 ...

Sitting on the seed tray of the backyard birdfeeder was a bright yellow bird the size and shape of a big male cardinal. Short orange beak, black eye-mask markings, chowing down on sunflower seeds ...