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

From the yellow bird in Alabama to the bright white albino in Knoxville, our feathered friends are breaking the cardinal rules of color.

Only three yellow cardinal sightings are reported a year, making the bird's appearance a rare "one in a million" finding, Geoffrey Hill said.

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

Bird watchers are flocking to a small Alabama city this week to catch a glimpse of a cardinal with a one-in-a-million genetic mutation that causes its bright red feathers to be a striking shade of ...

The rare, yellow northern cardinal, which she nicknamed “Sunny,” quickly became a national sensation. Workman last saw the bird with a genetic color mutation in December 2020.

Rare Yellow Cardinal Has Been Spotted In Illinois — And There's Less Than One-In-A-Million Chance To See One, Expert Says Cardinals are usually associated with the bright red color of their ...

He said in an interview in 2019 that people have a "one-in-a-million" chance to spot a yellow cardinal. He said the coloration is due to a mutation in the bird's DNA that blocks the normal red ...

So a bad season of Dogwood berries might mike a male Cardinal less attractive to the ladies next year. Porphyrins are very rare and are only found in a few groups of birds.