Pyrrhuloxia birds look like cardinals; in fact ... Yes, the tufted titmouse is gray and white, not red, but its head crest might trick you into thinking it is a female cardinal.

Think of a pyrrhuloxia as a southwestern desert cardinal ... A long, thin, wispy crest helps give the species a particularly whimsical look. The slate gray birds have varying amounts of red ...

Both are small, plain-gray ... crest, but the juvenile tufted shows a hint of black on the forehead. The song pattern of the two birds is nearly identical and often described as sounding like ...

The male cardinal in this video clip is not very subtle as he checks out a female - read our analysis of this behavior.

In late January, something odd appeared on Charlie Stephenson’s bird feeder in Alabaster, Alabama. It looked just like ... feathers and crest look frayed, an indicator that the cardinal might ...

The gray-brown birds have distinctive ... is a hallmark of the Northwoods. More birds to to look for: northern cardinals (males are all red with a crest on the head, females are mostly brown ...

The bird looks like a cardinal minus a pointed crest, even though it does show a bulge like a tiny crown on the head. Summer tanagers commonly breed throughout most of Texas, except for the Rio ...

A strange bird showed ... Clearly a cardinal, it had the bright red plumage of a male on its left side and gray, female feathers on its right. "I had no clue how on Earth something like that ...

The state bird ... crest and throat while the females have a more subdued but equally striking appearance. Their feathers are more of an olive-brown color with tinges of red. Northern cardinals ...

Birds like the northern cardinal and even the American robin ... feathers up and trap air — it's like instantly making a down coat." More: Great Lakes coastal marsh birds on the rise ...