Pyrrhuloxia
Cardinalis sinuatus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 8,003
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pyrrhuloxia”.