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Everything : Birds : Cardinals

The northern cardinal is a distinct-looking songbird found in the eastern half of North America, as well as Mexico. The male cardinal is a brilliant red with a notable crest on his head and a black mask on his face.

As typical in nature, the female again gets the duller colors of the sexes. The female cardinal has a golden brown head and stomach and olive color back and wings. She also has the black mask on her face and a reddish colored crest on her head. Baby cardinals resemble the female in coloring, but have a blackish bill instead of the female reddish bill.

Northern Cardinals are monogamous birds. The male, clearly raised well by a good mother, brings his female cardinal food while they are dating and often feeds her seeds beak-to-beak. Cardinals also enjoy grains, fruits, insects and sap.

Cardinals have 2-4 sets of eggs, or broods, per year. Each brood consists of 3-4 light green or blue eggs with specks of purple or brown. Babies stay in the nest only for about 10 days. Both parents feed the baby birds, but the male cardinal will often take on this job single handedly while the female begins incubating their next brood.

The Northern Cardinal is well-adapted to human habitats. It can be found in almost any backyard feeder, mixing in with other flocks of birds and almost always found with its mate. It used to be sold as a caged pet until the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 banned their sale and made it illegal to own or kill the birds.

		Male cardinal feeding pregnant female	Female cardinal on deck	Cardinal on root
		Male cardinal on lawn	Cardinal on feeder june	Female cardinalon feeder
Male cardinal on lawn	Cardinal	Male cardinal on lawn	Male cardinal on lawn	Female cardinalon feeder
Male cardinal feeding pregnant female	Male cardinal on top of feeder			Cardinal on root
Male and female cardinal	Cardinal on feeder june			Male cardinal on lawn
Cardinal at horn pond	Female cardinal on feeder	Male cardinal on top of feeder	Female cardinalon feeder	Baby cardinal
Male cardinal feeding pregnant female			Cardinal on ground	Pregnant female cardinal
Female cardinalon feeder			Female cardinalon feeder	Cardinal
Cardinal	Female cardinalon feeder	Cardinal	Female cardinal on deck	Pregnant female cardinal
Cardinal	Cardinal			Male cardinal on feeder
Cardinal on feeder june	Cardinal			Cardinal
Cardinal	Cardinal	Female cardinal on feeder	Female Cardinal Eating	Pregnant female cardinal
Cardinal	Male Cardinal	Cardinal	Female cardinal on deck	Cardinal
Pregnant female cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal	Cardinal
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mostly cardnals i love (11/8/2009, 8:14 PM)

these pictures are great and i love birds . (11/8/2009, 8:13 PM)

These pictures need more of the bird, not where it is (11/3/2009, 4:03 PM)

you people need better pictures of this beautiful bird (11/3/2009, 4:02 PM)

take pictures of finches (10/16/2009, 12:47 PM)

thank you very much you helped me out in some way with my homework project and all of the pics are so beautifully taken and i love photograghy i must commend the photogragher it is really a work of art . (10/8/2009, 8:01 PM)

beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing (8/2/2009, 1:03 PM)

How long do young cardinals stay with their parents? Yesterday I had nine cardinals in my yard. One was an adult male and the others were young....could have been an adult female in the group. They all came in together to feed twice. Could they all belong to one family? (7/23/2009, 3:02 PM)

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wonderful!!!!!!!!! (6/12/2009, 4:04 AM)

Im studeing about animals and birds. Thank you (6/5/2009, 5:13 PM)

I love your pics are so so good I like the one thats pregnent it looks so so so prety I like Its long nose.Thank you (6/5/2009, 5:10 PM)

I hate the cardinals go browns (6/2/2009, 1:15 PM)

facebooke (5/23/2009, 8:44 PM)

this is a great area of pics of the cardinals. i used some for my project (5/16/2009, 9:28 AM)

hey birds (5/15/2009, 9:37 AM)

Do cardinals like to look at themselves in mirrors? (5/14/2009, 9:05 AM)

hey me again im still doing that project not likeing it one bit its actually kind of creeping me out honestly i hate to admit it though but its true but im not typing all this about your pics im typing it all about my project (5/12/2009, 3:02 PM)

im bored im doin a school project right now and i dont like it i wish i was with you right now because its boring here and if i was with u i would be exploring the world and that is what i like doing best (5/12/2009, 2:59 PM)

i dont like the one with the plain ones on the ground right above (5/12/2009, 2:53 PM)

hey nice pics u r a real hit (5/12/2009, 2:52 PM)

oh i like the bird but i go 4 the team!!!yeah!!!! (5/7/2009, 6:42 PM)

We have two pairs of cardinals in our back yard .I have seen one of the males feeding one of the females . I have been feeding them on my windowsill. All I have to do is put up the blinds and they come right to my window and wait for me to put their food out.What a beautiful bird ! (4/8/2009, 2:43 PM)

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