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Yellow Cardinal Spotted In Alabama Considered 1 In A Million
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| 2-26-2018
Posted on 02/26/2018 7:38:58 AM PST by blam
Birders and biologists are reportedly heading to Alabama after pictures of a yellow cardinal started to circulate online, AL.com reported.
Geoffrey Hill, a biology professor at Auburn, told the website that the cardinal in photos appears to be a male and carries a genetic mutation, hence the bright yellow plumage. The bird was first spotted in January.
"I've been birdwatching in the range of cardinals for 40 years and I've never seen a yellow bird in the wild," Hill, who is on sabbatical in Australia, told AL.com via email. "I would estimate that in any given year there are two or three yellow cardinals at backyard feeding stations somewhere in the U.S. or Canada. There are probably a million bird feeding stations in that area so very, very roughly, yellow cardinals are a one in a million mutation."
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: alabama; birds; rare; yellowcardinal
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:38:58 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:40:48 AM PST
by
Leep
(The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
To: blam
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:41:11 AM PST
by
Leep
(The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
To: blam
Very pretty, have certainly never seen that!
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:42:31 AM PST
by
GnuThere
To: blam
Yellow Cardinals? Please no Catholic jokes. HHOK!
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:43:36 AM PST
by
dangus
(.)
To: blam
Yellow Hammer = Northern flicker
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:44:24 AM PST
by
KingLudd
To: blam
White and piebald robins occur about 1 in 30k. We used to have a family down the block.
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:45:59 AM PST
by
Mercat
To: blam
To: KingLudd
Isn’t a northern flicker a type of woodpecker?
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:47:17 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: blam
Birders and biologists are reportedly heading to Alabama after pictures of a yellow cardinal started to circulate online, AL.com reported.
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He’s popular with humans. I wonder what the female cardinals think of him?
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:50:53 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: blam
Somebody gonna have to capture it to verify their DNA speculation. Which came first ...the red or the yellow?
To: blam
Pretty bird... here kitty kitty.
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posted on
02/26/2018 7:55:22 AM PST
by
NRx
(A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
To: blam
The yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus, Gubernatrix.[2] Yellow cardinal Gubernatrix cristata -Argentina-8.jpg Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thraupidae Genus: Gubernatrix Lesson, 1837 Species: G. cristata Binomial name Gubernatrix cristata Vieillot, 1817
It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss and from pet trade trappers.[3]
The term "yellow cardinal" or "yellow morph" may also describe a northern cardinal which is yellow because it lacks the usual enzyme which converts yellow pigments in food to the red pigments in the feathers of most of its species. Sightings are rare.[4]--wikipedia
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02/26/2018 7:58:27 AM PST
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nuke deal. See my FR page)
To: blam
Well....we are the Yellow Hammer state.
Wrong bird. State bird is Yellowhammer Woodpecker.
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:06:26 AM PST
by
salmon76
(Russia, Russia, Russia => Clinton, Clinton, Clinton)
To: blam
Yep, proof that climate change is happening ... darn, another “fact” to add to the list.
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:10:22 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(We are getting even more than we voted for!)
To: blam
Well, damn. KILL IT. Then they can ‘study’ it further, easier /s
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:23:01 AM PST
by
i_robot73
(One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
To: salmon76
The more common name of the Yellow Hammer is the northern flicker. But in Alabama the is no “northern” anything discussed.
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:26:32 AM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: blam
Global Warming claims another victim!
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:28:59 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Build Kates Wall! Never Forget!)
To: WayneS
I believe the flicker is a “ground pecker” - eats ants.
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:30:19 AM PST
by
FroggyTheGremlim
(Democrats: the political party of the undead)
To: blam
A red one, by comparison.....
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posted on
02/26/2018 8:31:44 AM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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