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The bird Dr. Spencer saw in Colombia is only the second known case of bilateral gynandromorphism in a green honeycreeper — and the first documented in the wild.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

It also had a thin, yellow bill like a chicken instead of the thick, orange bill of our northern cardinal—a trait that gynandromorphism wouldn’t alter.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

A report on the find, only the second recorded example of gynandromorphism in the species in more than 100 years, has just been published in the Journal of Field Ornithology.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023

Various attempts have been made to explain gynandromorphism in insects in accordance with the chromosome theory of sex-determination.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.