Cardinalis

Cardinalis
	Male desert cardinal
	Female desert cardinal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Cardinalis; Bonaparte, 1838
Type species
	Cardinalis cardinalis;

Cardinalis is a genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae.^[1]^[2] There are three species ranging across the Great Lakes region to northern South America.

Description[]

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;^[3] males have a greater amount of red in their plumage, and females have only some tints, with a predominance of gray. Immature individuals are similar to females.

Species[]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Cardinalis cardinalis	Northern cardinal	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
Cardinalis sinuatus	Pyrrhuloxia (desert cardinal)	U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico
Cardinalis phoeniceus	Vermilion cardinal	Colombia and Venezuela