A Yellow Cardinal????????? in Kentucky

[Donna]

http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/yellow_NOCA.htm Now this is interesting and very pretty for a mutation!

Subject: RPT: Yellow pigmented Northern Cardinal
From: "Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EEC)"
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:25:15 -0500

Thanks to Kate Heyden with Ky Dept of Fish and Wildlife Resources for
forwarding along pictures of the *neatest* bird I've seen in a long time ... a
yelllow-pigmented Northern Cardinal! The photos were taken by David Gourley,
who lives in Boyle County. He and his wife have seen the bird at their feeders
several times since January 20th. I sent the photos to bird pigment expert, Dr.
Geoffrey Hill of Auburn University. Some may recall Dr. Hill gave a couple of
nice programs to the Ky Ornithological Society a few years ago. He said this is
a very rare mutuation; he published a paper on a similar specimen in the
Louisiana State University collection several years ago, a copy of which can be
read (you'll have to read slow ... it has more technical terms in it than any
pub I've read in a long time!!!)

[Annette]

This is a very interesting thing.  

[Bobbie Ireland]

Well done on finding that one, Donna - I saw something about the bird on 10,000 Birds but it was a scientific pdf, which was waaaaaaay beyond ME!

[dale]

looks like he had a violent run-in with photoshop.

[nanguz]

I came across a lime green pigeon. No one believes he was real. I saw him several days in a row

[dale]

I saw him several days in a row

Is there anything else you'd like to share with us about those "several days in a row"  ?

[Bird Crazy]

I came across a lime green pigeon. No one believes he was real. I saw him several days in a row

looks like daddy was a parakeet doesn't it

[MAK]

I came across a lime green pigeon. No one believes he was real. I saw him several days in a row

looks like daddy was a parakeet doesn't it

That's what crossed my mind when I first saw it too BC!

[Carol P.]

I came across a lime green pigeon. No one believes he was real. I saw him several days in a row

Looks like the green Pigeon we saw at the Walmart Plaza in Irondequoit last year.  Have you been seeing him recently Nan?  Where?  If so, and this is the same Pigeon, I'm glad he's survived.

Very cool yellow Cardinal!

Carol P.

[nanguz]

I am so glad you saw him too. I haven't seen him this year though. He probably got eaten by the hawk nearby.