![]() ![]() Here is our white cardinal, in Sequoyah Hills. ![]() ![]() Some cardinals break the standard brown females, red males color mold. Albino cardinals are rare, and Godfrey appears to have captured one on camera. Photo by Gary Mueller/Project Feeder Watch. Piebald cardinals are known to have blends that have patches of white. A female cardinal’s abdomen is typically brown-white. Or they’re not allowed to breed because birds are very visually-oriented,” Knoxville Zoo Curator of birds and reptiles Michael Ogle tells the WBIR-TV.īirds can have a wide variety of color within a species. They get picked off by predators because it is so easy to see a bright white bird in their habitat. Usually, these birds with rare colors don’t survive. “Typically, there’s a reason they don’t happen every day. Morgan Godfrey of Kentucky sent an image of a white cardinal to WBIR-TV. Michael Wallace replied in a comment, “He’s only used for home games.”Īll joking aside, the albino birds are fairly rare. Others are spotting unusually colored cardinals across the country and wondering how rare they are.įOX 2 viewer sent Linda Ann Biermann sent a pic of a cardinal with a white pigment to our Facebook page. BirdNote, a partner of the National Audubon Society, said that albino birds are distinctly different than leucistic birds. Experts say the bird is “one in a million” and only a few are found in North America. LOUIS, MO - An extremely rare yellow cardinal was spotted last week in Alabama. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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