Q: I watched a beautiful male cardinal feeding an all-brown bird on the roof of my garage. Why would it feed another species? A: That’s a great observation and it indicates how different young ...

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 ...

The bluebird feeds mainly on insects and other invertebrates (such as moths, worms, flies, ants, etc.), but they will search for berries, especially in winter. You will often see them perched on wires ...

Mr. Yellow, a male northern cardinal with a rare genetic mutation that causes his feathers to be yellow instead of red caused a sensation when he was photographed in Alabaster, Ala. in 2018 ...

A 2003 study analyzed the feathers of an individual yellow Northern Cardinal. This specific bird lacked all of these reg pigments that were derived from what it had eaten.

Scientists learned that missing one of the two enzymes causes this mutation after studying feathers taken from the first yellow northern cardinal documented in the wild. That bird was “collected ...

The beautiful male cardinal bird in this hilarious YouTube clip is very interested in a female and is not being subtle about it! The obvious way he is checking her out may seem amusing to us, but ...

They've been the state bird of North Carolina since 1942. That's enough time for residents of the state to feel a strong connection to them. Cardinals were an important symbol for a long before then.