Bright red cardinals are commonly part of Christmas cards, holiday decor and the general spirit of wintertime. This bird, called the Northern Cardinal, is North Carolina’s state bird (six other states ...

What Does a Northern Cardinal Bird Look Like? It’s hard to resist a northern cardinal bird. They’re lively, bright and amazing songsters. Amid the browns, blues and greens of the natural world, ...

One common backyard bird that may be taken for granted also has romantic attributes worthy of Valentine’s Day. In the brown bleakness of mid-winter, the male Northern cardinal brings a flash of bright ...

In my neck of the woods, it has been snowing like crazy. We set a new snowfall record for the month of December and January isn’t looking much better. So I have been taking advantage of the wintery ...

The transformation of songbirds' plumage rivals the beauty of blooming wildflowers each spring. On a recent dreary day, I noticed male northern cardinals becoming redder, male red-bellied woodpeckers ...

When male northern cardinals perch amid evergreens highlighted with a dusting of snow, well, winter doesn't get much more greeting-card gorgeous than that. Because they're so handsome, cardinal images ...

Thanks to the developmental fusion of male-female bird twins into one individual, this northern cardinal is half red and half tan -- split lengthwise down its middle -- and is half male and half ...

James R. Hill III has marveled at the feathered animals for 48 years, but on Saturday he saw a 'one in a million' bird with bright red like a male cardinal on one side and brownish white like a female ...

With its body turned to one side, you might not notice anything unusual about the cardinal recently spotted in the backyard of two Pennsylvania bird enthusiasts. But viewed head on, it’s an entirely ...