Gouldian halfster

[Mrs.V-Perez]

Guys so I been looking for birds and found this site
https://www.azfinches.com/home.html

Apparently you can create a hermaphadite bird! Not that it should be a goal or anything!
But it was amazing to see I thought I share

[debbie276]

It can not be bred for, it's a freak of nature.

Gynandromorph Gouldian, An organism having both male and female characteristics, especially an insect exhibiting a mixture of male and female tissues or sex organs.

That's a gynandromorph half-sider gouldian finch. Half-siders birds that form from the fusion of two twins in the egg and have a resulting split in color down the midline. Either the sperm or the egg that form the bird carries an extra chromosome and it ends up being a ZZW zygote (in birds, ZZ is the chromosome combo that distiguishes males, and ZW is female). When it divides from there, some of the cells end up being male, and some female. Because of the pattern of embryonic development in birds and the relative unimportance of hormones in determining sexual identity and morphism of birds, the male cells end up comprising half of the body and female cells make up the other.
http://talkbudgies.com/showthread.php?t=82671

A couple more links:
http://finchwench.wordpress.com/2011/06 ... omorphine/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorph