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This rare bird is male on one side and female on the other:
In Rector, Pa., researchers have spotted one strange bird.
This rose-breasted grosbeak has a pink breast spot and a pink “wing pit” and black feathers on its right wing — telltale shades of males. On its left side, the songbird displays yellow and brown plumage, hues typical of females.
Annie Lindsay had been out capturing and banding birds with identification tags with her colleagues at Powdermill Nature Reserve in Rector on September 24 when a teammate hailed her on her walkie-talkie to alert her of the bird’s discovery. Lindsay, who is banding program manager at Powdermill, immediately knew what she was looking at: a half-male, half-female creature known as a gynandromorph[*].
“It was spectacular. This bird is in its nonbreeding [plumage], so in the spring when it’s in its breeding plumage, it’s going to be even more starkly male, female,” Lindsay says. The bird’s colors will become even more vibrant, and “the line between the male and female side will be even more obvious.”
In 64 years of bird banding, Powdermill’s Avian Research Center has recorded fewer than 10 such birds. After marveling over their new find in the field, Lindsay and her colleagues took the rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) to the laboratory, measured its wing span and plucked out four feathers to obtain its DNA for future studies. The team later took photographs and TikTok videos with the tiny feathery guest before letting it fly on its way.
[*] Gynandromorphism.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @06:41AM (6 children)
fucking drama queens, attention whores.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @07:41AM (5 children)
and surely a social justice warrior
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @07:54AM (4 children)
Waaaay better than a whining conservative boomer, moaning of his arthritic libhurties and freeze peaches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:04AM (3 children)
zoom whoosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:06AM (2 children)
Double whoosh to you
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:22AM (1 child)
What makes A Mighty Buzzard mighty! Dimorphic gender! So glad he's out of the Birdcage [imdb.com]. chromas is next!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @09:48AM
A triple whoosh?
(Score: 5, Funny) by EJ on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:52AM (2 children)
Idiot "scientists" should stop making assumptions, and just ask the bird what they identify as.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @09:51AM (1 child)
Go boil yourself an egg. Or a teat, if you have one.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:57PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @10:32AM (1 child)
The existing garbage dumps (poisonous plastic from China) isn't enough. Develop more poisonous plastic packaging to sell your garbage in.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @12:06PM
Yes, because the usian plastic is so much clean, almost edible.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Entropy on Wednesday October 07 2020, @04:05PM (1 child)
Guy birds can totally lay eggs if they identify that way.
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday October 07 2020, @09:32PM
you kid, but here's the real deal on "gender" - and it helps knowing several languages. there are languages where there is no word for gender.
male and female is a sex. a vixen is a female fox. a bitch is a female dog. a woman is a female human. "gender" is not something that's based on opinion. it is a word to describe the type of animal and sex of animal, in one word.
in many languages, calling a human by their sex instead of the designated term for humans, is either offensive or a complement. for example in russian, the male sex is "samets." a human male is "muschina." if you call a man "samets," it means he is a big strong male that fucks a lot of women. if you call a woman "samka" - it means she is easy and a whore. there is no word for "gender."
but the millennial cucks went a step beyond gender now. they are literally saying sex is an opinion. there is a popular hiv drug commercial. the drug does not work on women. their disclaimer is that the drug does not work for men assigned female at birth. I feel that disclaimer should not be there, and anyone who truly believes themselves to be male, should be free to take the drug. and die.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @06:40PM
If told to "Go F yourself", the bird could actually comply.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Thursday October 08 2020, @01:46AM
The nature reporter in the Peterborough Ledger-Transcript (New Hampshire) reported on a similar bird a few years ago.