Summer Tanager. Summer tanagers are all red birds, without the black wings and tail of the scarlet tanager, and no black eye mask like cardinals. Look for them in southern states. They are not as ...

This bird spotted in southern Indiana last week is extremely rare. ... The cardinal pictured above — spotted at a feeder in Charlestown, Ind. — is the spitting image of leucism.

Cardinals are birds of the finch species, which means they are romantic yet fierce leaders. A cardinal shows its love for its mate by singing songs that are very beautiful and charming to the ear.

Cardinal, the Christmas bird, can boost your holiday spirit By Gary Clark , Correspondent Updated Dec 18, 2020 5:15 p.m. A bright red cardinal on a winter day in Texas is a boost to the holiday ...

What messages do female birds' markings send? Date: November 23, 2016 Source: Central Ornithology Publication Office Summary: Both male and female birds use traits like plumage brightness to size ...

Birds that come from the north get a lot of attention, and there are southern birds that show up here, too. It's likely that the motives of these species are different.

Hill, 69, who has been watching birds for 48 years, said he'd never seen one comparable with the bilateral gynandromorph northern cardinal. "This has been the most exciting," he said. Contributing ...

Once upon a time, the northern cardinal was mainly a southern bird. In the 1880s, people rarely spotted them north of the Ohio River. Obviously, this is no longer the case.

The cardinal became the state bird in Ohio and Indiana in the same year — 1933. Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia followed suit in 1942, 1943, 1949 and 1950, respectively.

One of the key differences between the northern and southern cardinal populations studied is that unlike in Ohio, the researchers did not observe any evidence of brood parasitism, where one female ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s official state bird is the northern cardinal, according to IN.gov. The Hoosier State isn’t, however, the only state that claims ownership of the red-feathered bird.