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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronate) and its cousins from South America look like our cardinal but are actually in the Tanager family. DNA evidence shows they are not closely related.

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.