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Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

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Field Notes

Notes:

This individual Northern Cardinal is strikingly lighter, almost pink, compared to the other male cardinals that appear at my feeders. Definitely not a a female, it also is lowest on the pecking order, and is easily chased off the surrounding crab apple trees. He feeds when other birds are scared off by a cooper's hawk or fly off for some other reason.

Reference Links:

Northern Cardinal, Northern Cardinal, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Comments (3)
keithp2012
I had one like this too, same thing lowest in pecking order. Sadly he got killed by a predator because he had to wait till dusk to eat bird seed and his luck ran out :(
DavidMroczkowski
The first picture captured by chance. He was less than a foot from the snow and still in this head first position.

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PublishedMarch 3, 2013

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