A strange bird showed up in Larry Ammann's backyard on Jan. 14. Clearly a cardinal, it had the bright red plumage of a male on its left side and gray, female feathers on its right.

"I had no clue how on Earth something like that could happen," said Ammann, a professor of statistics and a wildlife photographer who lives in a suburb of Dallas. "It was a learning experience."

Ammann and the biologists he consulted concluded the bird was most likely part female, part male. Creatures with this condition are called gynandromorphs. They are genetic anomalies: Some cells in their bodies carry the genetic instructions for a male, some for a female. While this gender-bending also occurs among insects, spiders and crustaceans, birds like this cardinal have raised questions about how sex identity is determined among some animals.

As the breeding season began, other cardinals became more territorial, and the bird disappeared before it could be trapped and its feathers collected for genetic testing.

"The last view I got of it was two males chasing it away," Ammann said.





more here

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/229171-Strange-He-She-Birds-Present-Gender-Bending-Mystery

Maybe it's just getting old, and it's feathers are turning gray....

The two males must be arrested, and questioned as to their motives.

If they confess it was for territory (food supply) then the hybrid-sex bird was considered a male.

If the two males were drooling and had a ding-dong in the anatomically assumed correct coordinates on their bodies mid-flight as they pursued the strange Cardinal, then the Cardinal liked altar boys too.

That is a transvestite

He had a sexual operation but they messed up back at the "Cardinal Hospital". The contract said if the bird wants such a operation then it must agree to never show itself to the human population. Unfortunately the failed transvestite operation bird breached the contract and a human caught a picture of it.

The two males that changed him/her off were mad that the bird showed itself. Now they have exposed the true identity of how smart birds really are!

Truly most animals find humans very dumb. lol

it broke the "cardinal" rule...