Chelsea Curry Hill told CBS News he has seen photos of other yellow cardinals before, but the rare bird received widespread press in 2018, when one was spotted in Alabaster, Alabama.

Geoffrey Hill, an Auburn University ornithologist who has done extensive research on bird colorations, said Maize could be related to Mr. Yellow from 2018, but there was no way to know for sure.

The Philippines is made up of more than 7,000 islands, supporting an extraordinary number of species that occur nowhere else on the planet. Eighty-six new endemic bird species have been described ...