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Pictures of Cardinals
All Photos : Birds : Song 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
		Female cardinalon feeder	Male cardinal on top of feeder	Male and female cardinal
Cardinal at horn pond	Female cardinal on feeder	Baby cardinal	Pregnant female cardinal	Cardinal
Male cardinal on feeder	Male Cardinal	Cardinal
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I seen a cardinal in under my holly bush just before winter. I''ve recently decided to start putting out bird food and I now have a male and female cardinals enjoying the booty I put out for them, along with a bunch of other birds too. Thank you for posting all the great images. (3/17/2010, 8:33 PM)

i think these cardnal cute and cuddle (2/25/2010, 2:54 PM)

cardinals are my favorite bird. I would like to learn more. (2/17/2010, 3:07 PM)

Thanks for the photo of the cardinals. I''m embroidering a female cardinal and wanted to get the colors just right! (2/2/2010, 1:44 PM)

what type of bird looks similar to a female cardinal but has gray beak? (1/30/2010, 11:59 AM)

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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)