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The red-crested cardinal is a medium-sized species showing a red head, with a red bib and a short red crest that the bird raises when excited. Belly, breast and undertail are white, with a gray back, wings, and tail. Wing coverts are gray, but the primaries, secondaries, and rectrices show a darker gray.
The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), known colloquially as the common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis.It can be found in southeastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, New Mexico, southern Arizona, southern California and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
Red-crested cardinal. Order: Passeriformes Family: Thraupidae. The tanagers are a large group of small to medium-sized passerine birds restricted to the New World, mainly in the tropics. Many species are brightly colored. They are seed eaters, but their preference tends towards fruit and nectar. Red-crested cardinal, Paroaria coronata (I) LC
Red-crested cardinal: Paroaria coronata (Miller, JF, 1776) 330 Red-cowled cardinal: Paroaria dominicana (Linnaeus, 1758) 331 Crimson-fronted cardinal: Paroaria baeri Hellmayr, 1907: 332 Yellow-billed cardinal: Paroaria capitata (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) 333 Masked cardinal: Paroaria nigrogenis (Lafresnaye, 1846) 334 Red-capped cardinal
The genus Paroaria was introduced in 1832 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the red-crested cardinal as the type species. [2] [3] The name is from Tiéguacú paroára, a name for a small yellow, red and grey bird in the extinct Tupi language.
Red-crested cardinal – Paroaria coronata; Red-cowled cardinal – Paroaria dominicana; Red-capped cardinal – Paroaria gularis; Masked cardinal – Paroaria nigrogenis; Crimson-fronted cardinal – Paroaria baeri; Yellow-billed cardinal – Paroaria capitata; Ixothraupis Bonaparte, 1851: Dotted tanager – Ixothraupis varia
The pyrrhuloxia / ˌ p ɪr ə ˈ l ɒ k s i ə / [2] 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 and red crest and wings, and closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal , which are ...
The adult red-capped cardinal is 16.5 cm (6.5 in) long and weighs about 22 g (0.78 oz). The nominate subspecies has a crimson head, blackish lores and ocular region, and shiny black upperparts, apart from a white partial collar extending up the neck sides from the white underparts.