Cardinalis

They are birds between 19 and 22 cm in length. Its most distinctive characteristics are the presence of a conspicuous crest and a thick and strong conical bill. There is sexual dimorphism;{{Cite web|date=2019-01-31|title=Rare half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pennsylvania|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/half-male-half-female-cardinal-pennsylvania|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222190756/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/half-male-half-female-cardinal-pennsylvania|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 22, 2021|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Animals|language=en}} males have a greater amount of red in their plumage, and females have only some tints, with a predominance of gray. Its striking red plumage is likened to a Catholic senior priest's garments, and their genus is named after the Latin word for them, cardinalis.{{cite book |last= Jobling |first= James A. | year= 2010 |title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |location = London, England |publisher= Christopher Helm | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = 91}} Immature individuals are similar to females.

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|name= Northern cardinal|binomial=Cardinalis cardinalis

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|image2 =File:Northen Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) RWD.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= United States from Maine to Texas and in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Its range extends west to the U.S.–Mexico border and south through Mexico to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, northern Guatemala, and northern Belize

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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Nineteen subspecies{{cite web |year=2019 |editor1-last=Gill |editor1-first=Frank |editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) |editor2-last=Donsker |editor2-first=David |title=Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies |url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/cardinals/ |access-date=26 June 2019 |work=World Bird List Version 9.2 |publisher=International Ornithologists' Union}} |bullets=on

| C. c. cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

| C. c. affinis Nelson, 1899

| C. c. canicaudus Chapman, 1891

| C. c. carneus (Lesson, 1842)

| C. c. clintoni (Banks, 1963)

| C. c. coccineus Ridgway, 1873

| C. c. flammiger J.L. Peters, 1913

| C. c. floridanus Ridgway, 1896

| C. c. igneus S.F. Baird, 1860

| C. c. littoralis Nelson, 1897

| C. c. magnirostris Bangs, 1903

| C. c. mariae Nelson, 1898

| C. c. phillipsi Parkes, 1997

| C. c. saturatus Ridgway, 1885

| C. c. seftoni (Huey, 1940)

| C. c. sinaloensis Nelson, 1899

| C. c. superbus Ridgway, 1885

| C. c. townsendi (van Rossem, 1932)

| C. c. yucatanicus Ridgway, 1887

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|name=Pyrrhuloxia (desert cardinal) |binomial=Cardinalis sinuatus

|image=File:Cardinalis sinuatus.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male

|image2 =File:Cardinalis sinuatus by Kramer Gary.jpg|image2-caption=Female

|authority-name=Bonaparte |authority-year=1838 |authority-not-original=

|range= U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico

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|name= Vermilion cardinal |binomial=Cardinalis phoeniceus

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|image2 =File:Cardinales phoeniceus female.jpg|image2-caption=Female

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|range= Colombia and Venezuela

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Cladogram based on analysis by Tilston Smith and Klicka published in 2013.https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Multilocus-species-tree-and-mtDNA-tree-for-Cardinalis-cardinalis-and-allies-Species-tree_fig2_235778391

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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