Pyrrhuloxia birds look like cardinals; in fact, they are sometimes called the desert cardinal. This species an be found in the Southwest and has the same impressive crest as the northern cardinal.

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 ...

It behaves like a cardinal and seen in typical cardinal habitat. Observers have wondered if this is a pink cardinal, different species of bird or if something else is going on.

For example, cardinals molt only once per year, so they mostly look the same year-round. Other species, like the scarlet tanager, molt twice per year and regularly appear yellowish in the fall and ...

She called her husband, Richard, to come look at the unknown bird. He said it looked like a cardinal, which she did not believe. "I argued that it was not because there was no such thing.

Same with Cardinals," Hill said. He hopes any bird watchers who beat the less than one-in-million chance and see a yellow cardinal in person simply enjoy it: "Many bird watchers like me have spent ...

Other bird couples may not look the same, but it’s pretty obvious that they are a pair. For example, a female cardinal doesn’t look like the male, but we all know she’s a cardinal.

The cardinal they saw was half-red and half-tan, the colors split directly down the middle, like two bird halves combined. There’s a name for this type of creature in the scientific community: a ...

In a backyard in Erie, Pa., an unusual cardinal has appeared, displaying both male and female traits. Scientists say it may be a so-called gynandromorph. By Karen Weintraub A bird hopping outside ...

A sweet Mama Cardinal is sitting on her nest nearly hidden in a dense bush near the front of the house. She refuses to budge even when the big man with the roaring power washer looms near. He&#8217… ...