One of my favorite birds to see in my yard is the humble cardinal. Male cardinals have a black face with a stunning, fiery ...

Perhaps love-crazed during mating season, a red-crested cardinal takes on a bright-red pickup truck last week in Wailea. The bird moved around the truck pecking at its reflection in the mirror ...

Every schoolchild knows the red, red cardinal, but how many adults know anything about this vivid, common bird beyond its name?

Radiantly red, like a red rose on Valentine's Day, the male Northern cardinal belts out a courtship song to a female sounding like "dear-dear-dear, pretty-pretty-pretty." The 8-inch-tall bird ...

The male cardinal’s song (female cardinals sing a little) can be described as “what cheer, what cheer”. More technically the cardinal’s two to three second song is a string of clear down ...

The California Academy of Sciences is celebrating a new addition to its Osher Rainforest — a red-crested turaco chick. The chick joins an array of other baby animals on display this month ...

Two other South American birds — red-crested cardinal and yellow-billed cardinal — are more closely related to tanagers than to our familiar Northern cardinal.