It's the season for those weird baldheaded cardinals again. From a distance, without a close look through binoculars, you might think you're seeing a red bird with a black head — possibly some vagrant ...

The adult male cardinal is unmistakable with his intense red color, prominent crest and heavy, orange-red bill. The adult female cardinal has a red and grey crest. She is olive-gray above and brownish ...

Lillian DeDomenic of Monroeville was snapping photos of birds in her backyard when one in particular caught her eye. At first, she wasn’t sure what it was. It had red body plumage, but its head was a ...

Readers have been asking about birds in their backyards with ratty-looking body feathers or without any head feathers at all. They have particular concern about "bald" Northern cardinals, birds whose ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: A crow that calls me to feed it leftover taco chips with sounds something like “coddle-coddle-coddle…whoooo-OOP; ...

Q We have two cardinals coming to our feeder and they seem healthy except that their heads are completely bald. It looks rather grotesque, and I'm wondering if they might have some sort of disease. A ...

Cardinals, chickadees and even mockingbirds that we commonly see throughout the year may be scarce until late October - but not because of Hurricane Harvey. They'll just be lying low while they change ...