The pyrrhuloxia or desert
cardinal is a medium-sized North American song
bird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This
distinctive species with a short, stout bill, red crest and wings, closely
resembles the northern and the vermilion
cardinals which are in the same genus. The desert cardinal
is one of three birds in the genus Cardinalis, a group of passerine birds found in North and South America. Source
