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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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Desert cardinal is referenced by 45 other articles, and connects out to Southwestern United States, Mexico and Animalia.
Vinony files it under Birds described in 1838, Birds of Mexico and Birds of the Rio Grande valleys.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernPyrrhuloxia
species
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cardinalis
- Mass
- 4.07
- Image
- Pyrr-juvenile.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Cardinalis sinuatus
- Commons category
- Cardinalis sinuatus
- Commons gallery
- Cardinalis sinuatus
- taxon common name
- sivi kardinal
- litter size
- 2.4
- short name
- C. sinuatus
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Description
- Distribution and habitat
- Ecology
- Diet
- Reproduction
- Relationship with humans
- Photo gallery
- References
- Further reading
- Book
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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.
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