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Desert cardinal
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The pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This distinctive species with a short, stout bill, red crest, and red wings closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal, which are in the same genus.
Species
Least ConcernPyrrhuloxia
species
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 4.07
- Image
- Pyrr-juvenile.jpg
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- taxon name
- Cardinalis sinuatus
- Commons category
- Cardinalis sinuatus
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- Cardinalis sinuatus
- taxon common name
- sivi kardinal
- litter size
- 2.4
- short name
- C. sinuatus
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- Distribution and habitat
- Ecology
- Diet
- Reproduction
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The pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This distinctive species with a short, stout bill, red crest, and red wings closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal, which are in the same genus.
==Taxonomy== The desert cardinal is one of three birds in the genus Cardinalis in the family Cardinalidae, a group of passerine birds found in North and South America.