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.
The desert cardinals is mostly gray with red markings, while the northern cardinal is mostly red with dark markings.
iStock.com/Dee Carpenter Photography
