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

LOUIS – A rare, once-in-a-lifetime sighting of a yellow cardinal was spotted while in the ... when yellow pigments in their ...

Ornithologist Geoffrey Hill, who is a professor at Auburn University in Alabama, would advise those in Michigan to let the ...

BATH TOWNSHIP, MI – A yellow northern cardinal is a rare thing ... He said they are rare, but not unheard of. “It goes to show that even birds that we consider ordinary can in fact be ...

Arlene McDaniel of Bath, Mich., was surprised to see a cardinal on her property that did not look like the others. The bird gets its yellow colour from a rare genetic mutation. Photos by Linda Vail.