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A green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) with male plumage on one half of its body and female coloring on the other has been caught for the first time on camera, with the only other known record being over a century ago.
Look at this fancy little gentlethem!
This green honeycreeper has male plumage on one half of its body and female plumage on the other half.
A wild Green Honeycreeper exhibiting distinct characteristics of both male and female of its species, known as a bilateral gynandromorph.
The bird is an example of bilateral gynandromorphy – a condition in which one side of an organism has male characteristics, and the other female.