Have You Seen a Half-Male Half-Female Bird?

Monday, May 13, 2019
From left to right: female, a Half-Male Half-Female and male birds,
credit to Daily Mail

Hermaphrodite is a term refers to organisms which have both sexes, male and female. Well known example is worms (earth worms).

How about if an organism has a “Half-Male Half-Female” sex organ? It is called as a “bilateral gynandromorph.”

This kind of anomaly cause a half body as a male and another part is female.

In case of bird, a cardinal bird, for simplify that a male is identified by his red color, while female is shown by her pale brown or gray brown or brownish yellow.

We are easy to distinguish male and female by color of cardinal birds.

Recently, a bird watcher in Pennsylvania, USA, Shirley Caldwell observed a cardinal with “split coat” in her backyard.

Experts believed the bird is a Half-Male Half-Female organism. 

As reported by Gray (2014) that this kind of “bilateral gynandromorph” bird was first time spotted in 2008. It regularly visited Rock Island, Illinois. 

Female cardinal in nature

Uniquely, a cardinal with rare sex appearance had never sing, no mate, lonely, not “bullied” and ignored by other cardinals.

Even thought a rare case, scientists believed that bilateral gynandromorph could be found in all bird species, especially to species with distinctly different between male and female.

Male cardinal in nature

Have you ever seen bilateral gynandromorph or Half-Male Half-Female birds?

Reference
Gray, R. 2014. The lonely life of the half-male half-female bird: Northern cardinal with bizarre split plumage is ignored by its peers in Illinois. Retrieved from Daily Mail, 31 December 2014. 

41 comments:

  1. How fascinating! I did not know this could happen with birds.

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    1. all bird species also reported to have a Half-Male Half-Female sex organ

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  2. I haven't heard of that before, was wondering if it was a fake picture, it is so sad you don't know anymore these days they can fake pictures so well. That would be something to see.

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    1. not fake, since it was reported by mainstream medias like national geographic, nbc news etc.... also science media such as: livescience….

      # My pictures just for illustrations..... but many real pictures and even video

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  3. Gosh, I suppose that the appearance of half-unique birds is half-colored and is the result of an engineering that was deliberately made by its keepers ...

    It turns out that there really is a bird like that ...
    Very unique.

    The genetics are also very rare, combined between male and female.

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  5. Wow! I have never seen a hermaphrodite bird or any other animal for that matter. Very interesting.

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  6. So interesting. I've never heard about it :)

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  7. Kita biasa menggunakan kata hermaprodit ut cwo yang melambai hehehe

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  8. Well I never! Fascinating little bird!
    Wren x

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  9. I've never seen it but I find it fascinating!
    xx

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  10. Wow! I had no idea. We see cardinals all the time - nearly always a mating pair in our yard. I'll keep an eye out for this phenomenon.

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  12. Great bird. I have never seen such a variation in sex/colour.
    Have a nice evening.

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  14. I have not seen them either, but they are cute 😍
    greetings
    Lili

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  15. Wow is very interesting. I ve never seen them.

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  16. I've never seen one, but I have seen a few albino animals.

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  17. OMG!! I never heard of a split coat like that. WE have a lot of cardinals here in PA. I will have to keep an eye out for one. We also have coyotes in NJ and my daughter has seen one in the field close to her house that is albino. It is always alone. Thanks for an interesting article.

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  18. Never heard or seen one. Will be looking out for them now.

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  19. Fascinating...have never known this before ...

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