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Female Northern Cardinal in the Late Afternoon
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English Northern Cardinal
Scientific (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Cardinalidae
Family (English) Cardinals & Allies
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions NA, MA
Breeding Range Subregions e, s, sw USA and Mexico
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Belize,Bermuda(I),Canada,Guatemala,Mexico,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
cardinalis se Canada and c, e USA (except se Georgia and peninsular Florida)
mariae Tres Marías Is. (off w Mexico)
sinaloensis w Mexico
affinis nc, wc Mexico
townsendi Tiburón I. and adjacent coastal Sonora (nw Mexico)
clintoni Seralvo I. (off Baja California in nw Mexico)
igneus s Baja California (nw Mexico)
seftoni c Baja California (nw Mexico)
superbus sw USA and n Sonora (nw Mexico)
saturatus Cozumel I. (off se Mexico)
flammiger s Quintana Roo (se Mexico), ne Belize and n Guatemala
phillipsi Yucatán Pen. (se Mexico)
yucatanicus base of the Yucatán Pen. (se Mexico)
littoralis Veracruz to Tabasco (se Mexico)
coccineus San Luis Potosí to n Oaxaca (e to sc Mexico)
canicaudus w Oklahoma and w, c Texas (sc USA) to c Mexico
magnirostris s Texas and c Oklahoma to Mississippi (sc USA)
floridanus se Georgia and peninsular Florida (se USA)
carneus sw Mexico
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Rotkardinal
French Cardinal rouge
Chinese 主红雀
Japanese ショウジョウコウカンチョウ
Russian Красный кардинал
Spanish Cardenal norteño
Portuguese cardeal-nortenho
Bird Data App text {IOC} 8.1 includes the Long-crested Cardinal of southwest Mexico as a subspecies.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)