ショウジョウコウカンチョウ redbird common_cardinal cardinal
Latin: [i]Cardinalis cardinalis[/i]
JP: ショウジョウコウカンチョウ [i]shoujoukoukanchou[/i]

A mid-sized songbird with a distinctive crest on the head. Males are vibrant red with a black face-mask which covers the base of the beak and eyes to the upper throat. (Females are reddish-olive with a grey mask.) The beak is red.

Cardinals are native to North America, where they can be found in the Eastern U.S. through Canada and parts of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

h4. See also
* "eBird - Cardinal":[https://ebird.org/species/norcar]
* [[Tag Group:Birds]]
northern cardinal