Scientists estimate the male northern cardinal’s genetic mutation that makes it yellow also makes it a 1-in-10 million bird ...

Social media reactions to Downtown Cary Park’s two large cardinal bird sculptures mixed. Here’s an update on when the park will be done.

The homeowner who first spotted the new yellow cardinal requested that her identity not be disclosed in this story to protect the bird, and her property, from unwanted attention.

Holiday images of cardinals on everything from greeting cards to table napkins are so common that the cardinal has been dubbed the “Christmas bird.” I can’t count the number of holiday ...

Yellow cardinal calls Port St. Lucie home. Unless there’s another ‘one in a million’ bird in same neighborhood “Everyone is watching for the yellow cardinal,” an Auburn University ...

In December 2023, we investigated a similar photograph, allegedly showing a rare, red and white "Santa cardinal" bird. Unfortunately, that photograph also turned out to be AI-generated.

Bird watchers have been observing a rare one-in-a-million yellow cardinal in a wooded teaching area at the University of Florida campus.

Researchers believe that the cardinal frequenting the Caldwells’ bird feeder in Erie, Pa., is a rare bilateral gynandromorph, half male and half female.

The birds on the phone are the mourning dove, northern mockingbird, pileated woodpecker, wood duck, crow, hawk, belted kingfisher, wood thrush, night heron, northern cardinal and rooster.