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I'm not sure that the picture used in this article is a Northern Cardinal. Northern Cardinals have red beaks, but this one's beak is yellow-orange. See [1] and [2]. Bryan 03:15, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
The Pyrrhuloxia has the identical range maps for, (approximately) Mexico, and Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Baja California Sur.
For northern Sonora, AZ, NM, these are the Sky islands, also called the Madrean sky islands. See Talk:Pyrrhuloxia. ....--Michael,in HOT,YumaAZ-- -- Mmcannis 16:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
How old do cardinals live to be?
===The range map is inaccurate....it completely leaves out the population along the Pacific coast of Mexico from Jalisco to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. -- Natureguy1980 ( talk) 21:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone else think that there are too many similar pictures in the gallery? Joyous! | Talk 23:37, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I've done a lot of tinkering with the images on this article over the last few days. It initially caught my interest when that excellent shot of the fledgling got deleted and that screwed up the page's formatting, but then I just kept farting with it. I think the layout and the overall appearance of the article is much-improved, but if anyone is unhappy with any of the edits I've made, please feel free to revert or re-edit them. Thanks. 'Card 00:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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I've completed what I think is sufficient cleanup of the gallery. VanTucky Talk 03:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be an edit war developing over the inclusion or otherwise of a map. It is my view that a partial map is better than no map, but please seek consensus instead of just reverting each other's edits jimfbleak ( talk) 15:30, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Are their beaks known to turn black for any reason ? I have a picture of what I assume to be a male cardinal except that the beak is a spotty black instead of orange. The plumage on the chest is also spotty red and gray. Could it be a cardinal in poor shape ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.104.88 ( talk) 22:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Seems like image overload in this article.-- NYMFan69-86 ( talk) 01:10, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Female cardinals will also attack non-present enemies in glass surfaces; I see this at my home regularly. 74.79.44.126 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC).
Is this species commonly referred to as just "cardinal" in the United States? I've doing some research to expand the Spanish article about the brown-headed cowbird and I wasn't sure about what species they referred to when they said "cardinal" whithout any adjective or scientific name. Pablo.ea.92 ( talk) 06:17, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
The page intro paragraph states: "The northern cardinal [...] is also known colloquially as the [...] cardinal (which was its name prior to 1985)." Prior to 1985? Does anyone have more info? Why 1985? — Shiny G 22:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
In the past month, we've had three different images of a female Northern Cardinal in the infobox. First, there was File:Northern Cardinal Female-27527.jpg. Then I changed it to File:Female cardinal.jpg, saying "Switching images of female cardinal because (1) higher resolution, (2) face can be more clearly seen, (3) facing the same direction as the male above". And finally, User:Snowmanradio changed it to File:Cardinalis cardinalis -Massachusetts, USA -female-8.jpg with the comment "probably a better infobox image".
Now, all three are great female cardinal images, and any would do just fine. But I personally think option #2 ( File:Female cardinal.jpg) is the best example. Option #3 is also good, but I find the background grass distracting, especially above the bird where the grass is blurry. I was wondering if anyone else had an opinion on which female cardinal image should be shown in the infobox. – Quadell ( talk) 12:25, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Is the male of the species the one that is used for the logo of St Louis Cardinal's baseball club??? User:JCHeverly 13:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
The article asserted,
for which it cited Charles T. Snowdon and Martine Hausberger, Social Influences on Vocal Development (Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 119. All Snowdon & Hausberger say on p. 119 about cardinals is this:
I started out just fixing the strange phrasing of the article's sentence ("It is able to easily distinguish") but decided to check the reference. Finding that the authority cited does not support the assertion, I have deleted the latter. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 22:40, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
On this wikipedia page, Northern cardinals are said to mate for life without a reference (aside from a link to the Pair bond page) but the Cornell Lab of Ornithology page says that up to 20% split up each season: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Cardinal/lifehistory — Preceding unsigned comment added by Met228 ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Recently a large amount of material has been added, mostly to the distribution section, but none of it has been referenced. I have reverted this for the time being. In the summary of this edit it is stated that the material is derived from "summarizing 8 or 10 reputable publications". The IP editor should feel welcome to reinsert the information, but only if these sources are named. Please keep in mind that all material must be referenced - this is not optional but a requirement. Previous to the revert, the paragraph gave the impresssion that all information was sourced to the IUCN entry, which is plain misleading. -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 08:59, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Definitely not Northern Cardinals. Or at least they don't appear to be to me, a non-expert but cardinal enthusiast. In the section "Ecology" (subheading "Song") there's a picture of two birds with the caption "The male often feeds the female as part of their courtship behavior". Possibly this was meant to illustrate a general behavior in many different bird species, but if so, the caption does not indicate that. I don't feel expert enough to make a change myself, however, so can someone review? AnneTG ( talk) 16:29, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
It kinda sad to see this very popular article of a bird being horrible right now as a GA. 2001:4455:30B:6C00:B8D0:C9D8:9325:569F ( talk) 10:22, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Flowers 137.118.84.221 ( talk) 23:16, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
FYI, in case someone disagrees, I just changed the "male" image in the infobox from File:Cardinal.jpg to File:Male northern cardinal in Central Park (52612).jpg. The sharpness/resolution is better, without the bird seed on the ground. The pose is different, but there are other photos in the article already which view it from the side. YMMV. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:00, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
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Near the end of the "Description" section, this statement appears: "Cardinals have the ability to drop their body temperature 3 to 6° if needed." This comes from the website footnoted. However, neither this article nor the reference has units for the degrees. Perhaps someone can locate a better reference that would make this clearer? I was unable to. N9XTN ( talk) 00:30, 24 October 2022 (UTC)