{"id":35248,"date":"2024-01-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e379fc16-b9f2-47cb-af6d-47285efe88de"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:35:44","slug":"extremely-rare-half-female-half-male-bird-spotted-in-colombia-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-100-years","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/extremely-rare-half-female-half-male-bird-spotted-in-colombia-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely rare half-female, half-male bird spotted in Colombia for the first time in more than 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The green honeycreeper, photographed and filmed at a bird feeding station in Columbia, is half green and half blue, with an ovary on the female side and a teste on the male side \u2013 meaning theoretically it could mate as either. <\/p>

By Megan Shersby\n <\/p>

Published: Friday, 12 January 2024 at 12:30 PM<\/p>

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An unusual green honeycreeper has been sighted at a reserve in Colombia exhibiting green (female) plumage on one side and blue (male) on the other. Whilst it sounds like an April Fool\u2019s joke, or something that AI\u00a0might generate, this is a condition known as bilateral gynandromorphy.\u00a0<\/p>

It is only the second documented case of bilateral gynandromorphy in this species, the opposite male and female sides than the first green honeycreeper gynandromorph, and the first for more than 100 years. <\/p>