Whoa!  Do birds really suffer from Male Pattern Baldness?  (Pretty sure all the human males with hair challenges are feeling doggone handsome right now!)  Although this previously-attractive male Cardinal looks like a mini red Vulture at the moment, he can boast that his bald head is temporary.  He’s going through a “molt” — a process whereby a bird sheds its older feathers in preparation for new growth.  Soon he’ll be back with a beautiful new, red headdress — ready to show it off to all the Cardinal chicks.

[That hole in the side of his head is his ear.]