![]() ![]() She spotted the yellow cardinal and promptly went to tell Vivian. Which is why on the next day, when they told me they saw a yellow cardinal, I figured it was a female. “We had a red cardinal come by that day, and Vivian informed me that cardinals are usually the first birds to discover new food sources like a birdfeeder. They asked for some bird seed and presto! Birdfeeder! That was April 6. And they came up with the plastic cup and yarn (and used a hole puncher). I told them to make a real one out of stuff we had around the house. They made a bird feeder out of sticks and leaves, but it wouldn’t stay in the tree. The girls figured if they couldn’t feed the duck, they might feed some other birds and attract them to our backyard tree, so they might nest there and have babies. “The idea for the bird feeder hatched from there. The yellow visitor eyes a simple feeder - a plastic cup hung with yarn. They wanted me to put food out for her, and I said no because she is wild. We are waiting for them to hatch any time now as they have a 28-day incubation. “On March 29, we discovered a duck nesting right next to our front door. She made sure to pick up two bird guidebooks before the libraries closed. “My oldest, Vivian, is a lover of birds and is always reading bird books and has at least one (if not ten bird books) from the library at any given moment. are likely to have abnormal plumage, but when that abnormality produces yellow feathers, the birds really stand out. Only a handful of the approximately 120 million Northern Cardinals in the U.S. In cardinals, the mutation is exceptionally rare. The bird’s coloration is the result of a rare genetic mutation called xanthochroism - when yellow or orange plumage replaces a bird’s normal colors. The Sterijevskis saw the bird every day for a week, but they haven’t spotted him for the last couple days. “I thought maybe they were mistaken and that it was a female,” Sascha says. Their mom, Sascha Sterijevski, says that the girls put a homemade birdfeeder in a tree on April 6 and spotted the oddball bird the next day. Vivian and Marina Sterijevski first saw the bird on April 7. It is at least the 17th yellow male cardinal reported in southern and eastern states since 2016. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Print this Article Share to EmailĪ yellow male Northern Cardinal was found last week in a yard in Boynton Beach, Florida, on the Sunshine State’s southeastern coast.
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