Meet the recognizable and beloved northern cardinal. Get cardinal bird facts, including why male cardinals are red, and where ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When you picture a cardinal in your head, you probably think of a bird with brilliant red feathers and a black face around its bill. Surprisingly though, in rare cases, these birds ...

A ghostly fish has been caught in a Vermont pond, surprising many who saw its photograph. Caden Hurley was fishing in a central Vermont pond when he reeled in the usual catch, Vermont Fish & Wildlife ...

Last week’s birding column included a discussion of leucistic birds — partial albinos — but without photos. Several readers responded. Steve Smith emailed me links to great photos he shot of a ...

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 ...

Some leucistic birds have a hard time flying because of these abnormal feathers. Interestingly, sometimes when a bird loses a feather while trying to get away from a predator, the new feather it grows ...

A flamingo-pink bird has been turning heads in Bay View throughout the summer. The bird is the the same size and shape of a northern cardinal. It behaves like a cardinal and seen in typical cardinal ...