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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...