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Pyrrhuloxia
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The pyrrhuloxia /ˌpɪrəˈlɒksiə/[2] or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This distinctive species with a short, stout bill and red crest and wings, and closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal, which are in the same genus.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cardinalidae |
Genus: | Cardinalis |
Species: | C. sinuatus |
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Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte, 1838 | |
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