This guy comes to our feeder every day in Central Texas. He looks exactly like a Cardinal except for his coloring. He's mostly white with orange running through him. We call him Creamsicle, because of his coloring. I've looked and asked around and haven't found anyone who can ID him. Is it possible that he is a Cardinal with some sort of color mutation? Thanks for the help!
kinda looks like a young male cardinal but too much white
Looks like a partial albino male Northern Cardinal. Kinda neat!
We get a kick out him. He kind of a little tough guy. Yesterday he chased away two large Blue Jays.
Well you gotta be tough when you stand out like he does. :-)
LOL, Yes you do!
Probably a female. It's not that unusual for Cardinals to have lots of white on them. Have you heard it sing at all? If it were a male and it sings you'd recognize it. Their song is very distinctive. I live in S. Illinois across the Mississippi from St. Louis (just so you know what part of the US I'm from) and I'll occasionally see a female that has much white. I've never seen one as white as yours but it just really looks like a Cardinal to me.
I decided to Google this for you and found the following link that shows several selections:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=white+Cardinal+&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=
I think I got one very similar. Mine's not as lightly colored as yours though.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1007646/
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