Incredibly Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Bird Caught on Camera : ScienceAlert

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.

The striking-looking bird has shimmering, aqua-blue and yellow-green feathers, with a clear boundary in the middle. This differs from the typical males of this species, which are bright blue with a black head, and the females, which are grass-green all over.

Amateur ornithologist John Murillo spotted the unusual creature at a bird-feeding station on a small farm in a…