Pyrrhuloxia / Schmalschnabelkardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus)

Wikipedia: Pyrrhuloxia Source: WIKIPEDIA Cardinalis_sinuatus_3.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Cardinalis (Cardinalis); Tribe Cardinalini (Cardinalini); Subfamily Emberizinae (Emberizinae); Family Fringillidae (Fringillidae)
General: The pyrrhuloxia /ˌpɪrəˈlɒksiə/^[2] or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American song bird 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 in the same genus. [more]