Animals / Bird

Northern cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis · Cardinalidae

The northern cardinal, also commonly known as the common cardinal, red cardinal, or simply cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis. It can be found in southeastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, New Mexico, southern Arizona, southern California and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It is also an introduced species in a few locations such as Bermuda and all major islands of Hawaii since its introduction in 1929.

Where the Northern cardinal lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Texas, Ontario, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

See the Northern cardinal’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 27,230,925 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.