Participant Photo: Female or male cardinal?
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4 comments on “Participant Photo: Female or male cardinal?”
1st, 2nd and 4th picture are female. 3rd picture male and female.
I believe that a young male molting into adult male plumage. There is no such thing as half-male half-female birds. Birds are either male or female.
There are half-male, half-female cardinals… look it up on google.
Sorry, I did not mean to be offensive or anything.
The half-male, half-female phenomenon is called Gynandromorphism, and it’s extremely rare. There are about 100 million cardinals, and I would guess that less than 0.00001% of the population is affected.