![]() ![]() In our yards, they come readily to feeders. They, and the Vermilion Cardinal, have been introduced (unfortunately, according to Warren Harden) onto several of the Hawaiian Islands. and well into the southwestern states the fact that they are the state bird of 7 states attests to its popularity. Generally speaking, the Northern Cardinal is found over most of the eastern U.S. They are a common permanent resident over most of Oklahoma, except in the Oklahoma Panhandle where they become rarer and rarer as you go west there are a (very) few records of the related Pyrrhuloxia in Cimarron County. ![]() Cardinals have very thick, strong bills that almost any bird bander quickly learns about-they bite really hard with these bills. Male Northern Cardinals are a striking red and females are brown with red on the crest, wings and tail. Cardinalis species are only found in the New World, so these 3 are it. sinuatus) of the deserts in the southwestern U. phoeniceus) of northern South America, and the Pyrrhuloxia (Desert Cardinal) (C. and much of Mexico, the Vermilion (or Brazilian) Cardinal (C. The Northern Cardinal is one of the 3 Cardinalis species of the Americas: The Northern Cardinal of the eastern U.S. ![]() She never fails to come up with amazing, beautiful pictures. Pat is the one who always rounds up “Bird of the Month” photos. I want to thank Pat Velte for taking and providing this month’s photo illustrating the Northern Cardinal. This month’s picture, illustrating such beauty, is sent as a Holiday Greeting to you, but you will have to look on the website () to see it in color. Add some snow to the picture of a male cardinal and you have a thing of beauty. The most frequent bird to be used on North American Holiday Greeting Cards, I suspect, is the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). ![]()
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