Peggy Guthrie of rural Long Grove, Iowa, snapped this photo of an unusual female northern cardinal sitting in her weeping mulberry tree. I forwarded it to Steve Hager, an associate professor of ...

Peggy Guthrie of rural Long Grove, Iowa, snapped this photo of an unusual female northern cardinal sitting in her weeping mulberry tree. Oddly colored female cardinal is ‘leucistic’ Skip to ...

Female cardinals are more muted in color, mostly brownish with red accents. Some lucky birders have even spotted rare yellow cardinals and leucistic or albino white cardinals .

Female cardinals, on the other hand, have a much duller appearance. ... When Hill saw the cardinal he knew immediately that it was not a leucistic bird, but one with bilateral gynandromorphism.

The female northern cardinal is usually found nearby. A bit more reclusive than her mate, ... A leucistic mourning dove has been frequenting the Alcan Drive area outside of Petoskey.

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, ...

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, ...

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, ...

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, ...

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male ...

The bird, theoretically, could mate with either a male cardinal and lay fertile eggs or a female cardinal and father the other female's eggs. The bird, theoretically, ...