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    By Dennis Pillion dpillion@al.com
    An extremely rare cardinal has birders and biologists flocking to Shelby County, Alabama this week, as images of a yellow cardinal have circulated around social media.

    Auburn University biology professor Geoffrey Hill said the cardinal in the photos is an adult male in the same species as the common red cardinal, but carries a genetic mutation that causes what would normally be brilliant red feathers to be bright yellow instead.

    Alabaster resident Charlie Stephenson first noticed the unusual bird at her backyard feeder in late January and posted about it on Facebook. She said she's been birding for decades but it took her some time to figure out what she was seeing.

    "I thought 'well there's a bird I've never seen before'," Stephenson said. "Then I realized it was a cardinal, and it was a yellow cardinal."

    Stephenson said she would not give out her address or specific location due to fears that people would flock in to get a look at the bird, but said she lives near the new Thompson High School in Alabaster. She shot some video of the bird, embedded below.

    http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201..._cardinal.html

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    I crushed one just like that off the bird feeder last week. Didn't want him to crossbreed and diminish my Redbird's genetics .. I don't want to see any Orange Cardinals round here..
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    Why titled as "Hybrid?" when the article mentions genetic mutation? Cool bird.
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    Sigh......

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    And it is written, "the dorks will comest forth and reveal themselves through internet media"

    -1st Timothy 16:10

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    Cool looking bird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    And it is written, "the dorks will comest forth and reveal themselves through internet media"

    -1st Timothy 16:10
    Spot on self fulfilling prophecy right there.
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    Thanks. I know.

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    Send him to Shane. Make him look real nice.
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    It’d be awesome if some kid with a red Ryder rolled in there and plinked him off a feeder while a bunch of those hippies were looking on......


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    Quote Originally Posted by FEETDOWN View Post
    It’d be awesome if some kid with a red Ryder rolled in there and plinked him off a feeder while a bunch of those hippies were looking on......


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    He'd be pretty mounted and placed in my front door's Christmas wreath

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    Goldfinch x Cardinal
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    I killed a Different looking one when I was a boy. It was red but with white ends on its feathers. I kept in the freezer for years until hurricane Hugo killed the power and all my treasures had to go.

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