I read about this one time. If birds have mites and can't pick them out of the feathers around the head they sometimes shed the feathers and grow new ones.
Rick Hoyme ----- Original Message ----- From: Dawn Bradshaw, DVM<mailto:delaineshaw at comcast.net> To: BRDBRAIN at LISTSERV.ADMIN.USF.EDU<mailto:BRDBRAIN at LISTSERV.ADMIN.USF.EDU> ; cobirds at lists.cfo-link.org<mailto:cobirds at lists.cfo-link.org> ; GABO-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:GABO-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> ; IN-BIRD-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU<mailto:IN-BIRD-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> ; IA-BIRD at lists.iowabirds.org<mailto:IA-BIRD at lists.iowabirds.org> ; KSBIRD-L at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU<mailto:KSBIRD-L at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU> ; LABIRD-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU<mailto:LABIRD-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU> ; mich-chat at envirolink.org<mailto:mich-chat at envirolink.org> ; Majordomo at willow.mcsr.olemiss.edu<mailto:Majordomo at willow.mcsr.olemiss.edu> ; MOBIRDS-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU<mailto:MOBIRDS-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU> ; mou-net at moumn.org<mailto:mou-net at moumn.org> ; WV-BIRD at LIST.AUDUBON.ORG<mailto:WV-BIRD at LIST.AUDUBON.ORG> ; PETER WUEBKER<mailto:pjwuebker at hughes.net> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [mou] BALD CARDINAL We have a bald cardinal hanging out in our neighborhood. I've seen him with a female, they might be nesting in the neighbor's evergreen tree. I thought maybe he just got picked on by some of the other "boys" in the neighborhood. Dawn Bradshaw Bloomington, MN ----- Original Message ----- From: PETER WUEBKER<mailto:pjwuebker at hughes.net> To: BRDBRAIN at LISTSERV.ADMIN.USF.EDU<mailto:BRDBRAIN at LISTSERV.ADMIN.USF.EDU> ; cobirds at lists.cfo-link.org<mailto:cobirds at lists.cfo-link.org> ; GABO-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:GABO-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> ; IN-BIRD-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU<mailto:IN-BIRD-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> ; IA-BIRD at lists.iowabirds.org<mailto:IA-BIRD at lists.iowabirds.org> ; KSBIRD-L at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU<mailto:KSBIRD-L at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU> ; LABIRD-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU<mailto:LABIRD-L at LISTSERV.LSU.EDU> ; mich-chat at envirolink.org<mailto:mich-chat at envirolink.org> ; Majordomo at willow.mcsr.olemiss.edu<mailto:Majordomo at willow.mcsr.olemiss.edu> ; MOBIRDS-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU<mailto:MOBIRDS-L at PO.MISSOURI.EDU> ; mou-net at moumn.org<mailto:mou-net at moumn.org> ; WV-BIRD at LIST.AUDUBON.ORG<mailto:WV-BIRD at LIST.AUDUBON.ORG> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 7:08 AM Subject: [mou] BALD CARDINAL I was out birding yesterday and came across a bald northern cardinal. I've never seen such a thing. Kind of gross, but he had no idea he was not so beautiful and was just singing away. Does anyone have an idea of what happened to this bird? Was he born this way, have some mites or disease? Will he get better? I have posted an image on my web site in the INSTANTS OF NATURE gallery. If you want to see, the address is: http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com/<http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com/> PETER WUEBKER pjwuebker at hughes.net<mailto:pjwuebker at hughes.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. Mailing list membership available on-line at http://moumn.org/subscribe.html<http://moumn.org/subscribe.html>. ----- To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org<mailto:mou-net-request at moumn.org> with a subject of unsubscribe. --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union. Mailing list membership available on-line at http://moumn.org/subscribe.html. ----- To unsubscribe send a blank email to mou-net-request at moumn.org with a subject of unsubscribe. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080608/5565a996/attachment-0001.html
