The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any other bird. They're a perfect combination of ...
The northern cardinal is a mid-sized perching songbird with a body length of 21–23 cm (8.3–9.1 in) and a crest on the top of the head.
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The Northern Cardinal is granivorous, or grain-eating, and well-equipped to handle this diet thanks to a conical, seed-cracking bill.
Northern cardinals are medium-sized songbirds. Males are bright red except for a black mask on their face. Females are light brown or light greenish-brown.
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The northern cardinal, known colloquially as the common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cardinalis cardinalis
Collective noun: college, conclave, and deck
Class: Aves
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Cardinalidae
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Passeriformes
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The Cardinal is the official state bird of no fewer than seven eastern states. Abundant in the Southeast, it has been extending its range northward for decades.
Striking and familiar backyard bird throughout most of eastern North America; also occurs in the southwestern U.S. and fairly extensively in Mexico.
Northern Cardinal · Cardinalis cardinalis · (Linnaeus, 1758). Order: PASSERIFORMES. Family: Cardinalidae (Cardinals & Allies). Genus: Cardinalis. Species ...