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Types of Cardinals

Black-Backed ​Grosbeak​
Black-Backed ​Grosbeak​

Cardinals, in the family ... The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole. ... Black-backed grosbeak, Pheucticus aureoventris;

Black-​Cheeked ant Tanager​
Black-​Cheeked ant Tanager​

The black-cheeked ant tanager (Habia atrimaxillaris) is a species of bird in the family Cardinalidae. It is endemic to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Black-Faced ​Grosbeak​
Black-Faced ​Grosbeak​

The black-faced grosbeak (Caryothraustes poliogaster) is a large seed-eating bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae), which is a resident breeding species from south-eastern Mexico to eastern Panama. The adult black-faced grosbeak is 16.5 cm long, weighs 36 g, and has a heavy, mainly black, bill.

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Black-Headed ​Grosbeak​
Black-Headed ​Grosbeak​

In western North America, the sweet song of the Black-headed Grosbeak caroling down from the treetops sounds like a tipsy robin welcoming spring. The flashy black, white, and cinnamon males and the less flamboyant females sing from perches in suburbs, desert thickets, and mountain forests.

Black-​Throated Grosbeak​
Black-​Throated Grosbeak​

Cardinals, in the family Cardinalidae, are passerine birds found in North and South America. They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings. The South American cardinals in the They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings.

Blue Bunting​
Blue Bunting​

Female Blue Grosbeaks are distinguished from female Indigo Buntings by their larger body, larger bill, and slight pinkish tinge on sides. Read more about these and other migrants in Birds in the Yard Month by Month: What's there and Why, and How to Attract Those That Aren't.

Blue ​Grosbeak​
Blue ​Grosbeak​

The northern cardinal type species was named by colonists for the male's red crest, reminiscent of a Catholic cardinal's biretta. The "North American buntings" are known as such to distinguish them from buntings of the Old World family Emberizidae. The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole.

Blue-Black ​Grosbeak​
Blue-Black ​Grosbeak​

Cardinals & Grosbeaks. ... Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca caerulea) Black-headed Grosbeak ... Cardinals typically raise 2 to 3 broods per year.

Buff-Throated ​Saltator​
Buff-Throated ​Saltator​

The Buff-throated Saltator has a stout, finch-like bill, and traditionally was classified with the cardinals and grosbeaks, Cardinalidae.

Cardinals​
Cardinals​

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Crested ant ​Tanager​
Crested ant ​Tanager​

Crested Ant-tanager 19 cm. Strong-billed ant-tanager with “bicoloured” appearance, red and greyish. Male has long, prominent crest scarlet, most often held erect (occasionally held flat in narrow

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Cyanoloxia​
Cyanoloxia​

The northern cardinal type species was named by colonists for the male's red crest, reminiscent of a Catholic cardinal's biretta. The "North American buntings" are known as such to distinguish them from buntings of the Old World family Emberizidae. The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole.

Dickcissel​
Dickcissel​

by Chuck Fergus Northern Cardinal, Grosbeaks, Indigo Bunting and Dickcissel Cardinals live in thickets, hedgerows, brushy fields, swamps, gardens and towns and cities.

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Golden ​Grosbeak​
Golden ​Grosbeak​

The golden grosbeak (Pheucticus chrysogaster), also known as golden-bellied grosbeak or southern yellow grosbeak, is a species of grosbeak in the Cardinalidae family. It is very similar to, and has sometimes been considered conspecific with, the yellow grosbeak.

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Green-Winged ​Saltator​
Green-Winged ​Saltator​

Green-winged Saltator (Saltator similis), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, ...

Greyish ​Saltator​
Greyish ​Saltator​

Greyish saltator Saltator coerulescens: Scientific ... The saltators as traditionally defined are apparently neither monophyletic nor allied with the cardinals.

Indigo Bunting​
Indigo Bunting​

The all-blue male Indigo Bunting sings with cheerful gusto and looks like a scrap of sky with wings. Sometimes nicknamed "blue canaries," these brilliantly colored yet common and widespread birds whistle their bouncy songs through the late spring and summer all over eastern North America. Look for Indigo Buntings in weedy fields and shrubby areas near trees, singing from dawn to dusk atop the tallest perch in sight or foraging for seeds and insects in low vegetation.

Lazuli Bunting​
Lazuli Bunting​

The male Lazuli Bunting lights up dry brushy hillsides, thickets, and gardens throughout the West, flashing the blue of a lapis gemstone mixed with splashes of orange. He belts out his squeaky and jumbling song from atop shrubs to defend his territory.

North ​American Buntings​
North ​American Buntings​

Cardinals, in the family Cardinalidae, are passerine birds found in North and South America. They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings. The South American cardinals in the They are also known as cardinal-grosbeaks and cardinal-buntings.

Northern ​Cardinal​
Northern ​Cardinal​

The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) is a North American bird in the genus Cardinalis; it is also known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal or just cardinal (which was its name prior to 1985).

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Orange-​Breasted Bunting​
Orange-​Breasted Bunting​

The northern cardinal type species was named by colonists for the male's red crest, reminiscent of a Catholic cardinal's biretta. The "North American buntings" are known as such to distinguish them from buntings of the Old World family Emberizidae. The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole.

Pheucticus​
Pheucticus​

The northern cardinal type species was named by colonists for the male's red crest, reminiscent of a Catholic cardinal's biretta. The "North American buntings" are known as such to distinguish them from buntings of the Old World family Emberizidae. The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole.

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Pyrrhuloxia​
Pyrrhuloxia​

The pyrrhuloxia 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, red crest and wings, closely resembles the northern and the vermilion cardinals which are in the same genus.

Red-and-​Black Grosbeak​
Red-and-​Black Grosbeak​

At the other end of the spectrum from these red birds are the Varied Bunting (mostly dark purple) and the Blue Grosbeak, mainly summer residents in the Sonoran Desert. Another species, the Black-headed Grosbeak, is mostly a denizen of oak woods in summer, but migrants show up all over the desert in spring and fall.

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Red-Crowned ​ant Tanager​
Red-Crowned ​ant Tanager​

The red-crowned ant tanager (Habia rubica) is a medium-sized passerine bird from tropical America.The genus Habia was long placed with the tanagers (Thraupidae), but it is actually closer to the cardinals (Cardinalidae).

Red-Throated ​ant Tanager​
Red-Throated ​ant Tanager​

The red-throated ant tanager (Habia fuscicauda) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This species is a resident breeder on the Caribbean slopes from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It was usually considered an aberrant kind of tanager and placed in the Thraupidae, but is actually closer to the cardinals (Cardinalidae).

Rose-​Breasted Grosbeak​
Rose-​Breasted Grosbeak​

The rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) is a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). It is primarily a foliage gleaner. It breeds in cool-temperate North America, migrating to tropical America in winter.

Saltators​
Saltators​

When it comes to cardinals and sports, the first and foremost organization to come to mind has to be baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, and not just because they’re Corey’s favorite team. The St. Louis Cardinals is one of the winningest (this is a real word in the sports world) franchises in all of baseball in terms of World Series crowns, second only to the storied New York Yankees.

Sooty ant ​Tanager​
Sooty ant ​Tanager​

The sooty ant tanager (Habia gutturalis) is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae); formerly, it was placed with the true tanagers in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to Colombia.

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Ultramarine ​Grosbeak​
Ultramarine ​Grosbeak​

Grosbeak / ˈ ɡ r oʊ s b iː k / is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks.Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea, these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds. Some are cardueline finches in the family Fringillidae, while others are cardinals in the family ...

Varied ​Bunting​
Varied ​Bunting​

The dense and thorny nature of its habitat may make it seem hard to approach, but the bird is not especially shy, and sometimes may be watched at very close range. In Arizona, where its nesting is timed to the summer rains, male Varied Buntings may be in full song on mornings in August.

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Yellow ​Grosbeak​
Yellow ​Grosbeak​

Typical cardinal-grosbeaks. The six species in the genus Pheucticus. Mexican yellow grosbeak, P. chrysopeplus; Southern yellow grosbeak, P. chrysogaster; Black-thighed grosbeak, P. tibialis, a restricted-range endemic found only in the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama

Yellow-Green ​Grosbeak​
Yellow-Green ​Grosbeak​

Cardinals, in the family ... The name "cardinal-grosbeak" can also apply to the cardinalid family as a whole. ... Yellow-green grosbeak, Caryothraustes canadensis;

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