{"id":742894,"date":"2026-07-04T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742894\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:34:14","slug":"1-in-30000-baby-albino-cardinal-rescued-in-lancaster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742894\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;1 in 30,000&#8217;: Baby albino cardinal rescued in Lancaster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A Lancaster County wildlife center took in an animal it may only see once in a lifetime: a fledgling albino cardinal. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ravenridgewildlife\/posts\/pfbid032gLQdJ76MBeddtrNP7Dc5wNCtHiANyas1PkxQ3QZSHwM5T1dK2pVJfgN2Cvt4hwEl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raven Ridge Wildlife Center,<\/a> based in Washington Borough, said the odds of seeing an albino cardinal are about 1 in 30,000. <\/p>\n<p>The cardinal was found under a car and appeared to be injured, according to Raven Ridge. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our eyes widened and our jaws dropped as we realized we were witnessing a rare occurrence that most people never see outside of pictures,&#8221; the wildlife center wrote. &#8220;This was a fledgling albino cardinal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Albino cardinals face survival challenges due to often poor vision and a color that makes them more vulnerable to predators. <\/p>\n<p>Because of the slim chances of survival, Raven Ridge said the cardinal will be kept at its center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A Lancaster County wildlife center took in an animal it may only see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-742894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}