Updated On: 18 October, 2020 11:00 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Researchers get their hands on a rare bird that is half male and half female

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