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American Robin. Photo: Mick Thompson/Audubon Photography Awards
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Bad Feather Days: Molt in Backyard Birds
Why is that Northern Cardinal bald? We all have bad hair days. Birds have bad feather weeks every late summer as they go through molt. Some, like Northern Cardinals, take the process to the extreme.