This Bird Is Half Male, Half Female, and Completely Stunning

This Bird Is Half Male, Half Female, and Completely Stunning

2/8/2025

notes

life will find a way...

link

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/science/honeycreeper-birds-colombia-gynadromorph.html

summary

A green honeycreeper spotted on a farm in Colombia exhibits a rare biological phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphism. The bird is female on one side and male on the other, a condition that is not entirely clear how it comes about but is thought to result from an error during the production of egg cells in female birds.