Archive for April 7th, 2012
Northern Cardinal With Tumor
Posted by Ed in Oddities, Photography & Images on 7-April-2012
That missing leg surely involves an accident, those missing feathers may be mites, but now we have a male Northern Cardinal with what looks like a tumor on his head:
It’s not obvious in that picture, but the black patch seems to be the rubbed-raw top of a growth.
Prior to these birds, in all the years we’ve been birdwatching we’ve never seen any damaged cardinals…


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