It may not be one in a million, but it’s pretty close.
Researchers have discovered a rare songbird that is male on one side of its body, and female on the other.
It’s being described as a “once in a lifetime” discovery.
The last time the Powdermill Nature Reserve at the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History found another was 15 years ago, and it’s only the fifth to be discovered out of the nearly 800,000 birds that the nature reserve has seen.
“Everyone here, I mean the whole crew, was just so excited,” Annie Lindsay, the nature reserve’s bird banding program manager, told CNN. “There was this scientific interest, of course. But also happiness for seeing something that was so rare.”
The bird was identified as a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Male and female Grosbeaks are distinguished by their color: males have pink “wing pits,” while females are yellow-brown.
The sides of this bird’s body were different colors. This genetic variation is known as gynandromorphism [...]
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