Just before Christmas, two backyard birders in Michigan were in for the ultimate surprise–a yellow Northern Cardinal. Arlene ...

Just before Christmas, two backyard birders in Michigan were in for the ultimate surprise–a yellow Northern Cardinal. Arlene and John McDaniel spotted the incredibly rare bird in their backyard in ...

Read on to learn everything you need to know about the Northern Cardinal ... pets and could live up to 29 years in captivity. Their sale was banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918.

Scientists estimate the male northern cardinal’s genetic mutation that makes it yellow also makes it a 1-in-10 million bird. The abnormally ... to be on the ground or up in the tree,” she ...

According to the Bird Note Organization, some Northern Cardinals, such as the cardinal in Yanagimoto’s backyard, lack the ability to transform those pigments into a shade of red and instead ...