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C_A_Ivy Barling, AR(Zone 7b) Feb 08, 2014

A cardinal looking bird in back yard peach tree. What is it?

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OldNed Merritt Island, FL(Zone 10a) Feb 09, 2014

That's a Pyrrhuloxia

Found in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico & northern Mexico. It's in the same genus as the Northern Cardinal.

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Feb 09, 2014

Sorry OldNed, but I'd beg leave to differ - it's a female Northern Cardinal; the secondaries as well as the primaries are reddish (just the primaries in Pyrrhuloxia), and the bill is conical, not rounded, stubby as in Pyrrhuloxia. As the bill isn't bright red, presumably an immature.

It also has a bad case of feather mites around its head.

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C_A_Ivy Barling, AR(Zone 7b) Feb 09, 2014

In other words. one sick looking bird. Thanks guys.

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OldNed Merritt Island, FL(Zone 10a) Feb 10, 2014

I agree with Resin, bill is wrong for Pyrrhuloxia. That's a female Northern Cardinal with feather mites (which occur often with our Cardinals).

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