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Pyrrhuloxia

Cardinalis sinuatus

Classification

Class
Aves

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 170,612Mexico · 11,110