Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

First view, my yard, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 16 December 2006; state bird of Indiana.

Another view, my yard, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 11 February 2006.

Another view, my yard, S. McClellan, Marquette, Michigan, 24 March 2012.

Another view, Bob Rodriquez’s yard, Portal, Arizona, 6 March 2017. (This subspecies is a potential AOU split.)

Another view, Patton House, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, 2 May 2022. (Potential split.)

Another view, Corinth, Mississippi, 10 August 2014. (The point of this photo is that it was taken in Mississippi.)

Another view, Dayton Ohio, 2 January 2015. (The point of this crummy photo is that this is the state bird of Ohio.)

Another view, Pine Hill Road (above Snake Road), Union County, Illinois, 21 August 2017. (The point of this crummy photo is that this is the state bird of Illnois, and that this photo was taken—with my (non-telephoto) landscape lens—during the solar eclipse, 45 minutes after totality.)