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This bird is half male and half female

Researchers get their hands on a rare bird that is half male and half female

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This bird has black feathers and a pink armpit on one side, and brown feathers and a yellow-coloured armpit on the other

This bird has black feathers and a pink armpit on one side, and brown feathers and a yellow-coloured armpit on the other

Researchers from the Powdermill Nature Reserve chanced upon a once-in-a-lifetime discovery—a rose-breasted grosbeak that is half male and half female. Annie Lindsay and her colleagues were catching birds and banding them with identification tags when their eyes landed on a gyandromorph, meaning that the bird they saw, exhibited male and female characteristics.

It has male organs on one side of the body and female on the other side
It has male organs on one side of the body and female on the other side

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