YAKIMA, Wash. — As beginning birder in my teenage years, I still remember quite clearly my first glimpse of this exotic appearing bird. It was 1968 and at Buena Vista ...

Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either ov… ...

While there are an estimated 15 million red cardinals across the eastern U.S., making it one of the most common birds in the wild, there are just 10 to 15 yellow cardinals flying around the region.

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. Another yellow bird you might see in a ...

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 ...

At first, she told Al.com, she figured it was a species of yellow bird she had never seen before. Then she realized that the creature, with its black mask and crested head, ...

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 ...

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 ...