Correction: Poison ivy berries are green when immature and yellowish-white when ripe. This article incorrectly described their color. LITTLE ROCK — Every schoolchild knows the red, red cardinal ...

This cardinal-look alike is commonly known as the desert cardinal. To spot one of these types of cardinals in North America, you’ll have to visit the southwestern United States or Mexico.

Over the past 400 years, people have also called them crested redbirds, Virginia nightingales, and—paradoxically—red blue jays. The term cardinal ultimately derives from cardo, a Latin word ...

To many birders, the song of the Northern Cardinal has supplanted sighting the American Robin as the harbinger of spring Ron Miller on birding: Singing spring and seeing red | INFORUM 0 ...

Its red side is male, while the yellow is female. (Submitted by Shirley Caldwell) The result is a single cardinal that is literally split down the middle, both in colour and in chromosomes.