Pyrrhuloxia
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Pyrrhuloxia
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A beautiful male Pyrrhuloxia, Cardinalis sinuatis, perches in Falcon State Park near Falcon Heights, Texas. The Pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal is a medium-sized North American song bird 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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February 9th, 2019
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Comments (26)
Debra Martz
An excellent portrait of the Pyrrhuloxia! Congratulations on your well deserved Weekly Wow in Wild Birds of the World!!
HH Photography of Florida
What a gorgeous little fella ... a new one on me. :) Beautiful bird and capture, Jurgen. Congratulations on your WoWie from William in the Wild Birds of the World group. L/tw
William Tasker
Jurgen, you won a WOWIE! This awesome image has been chosen as one of the William's Wows found in the discussions tab of the group, Wild Birds Of The World.
William Tasker
Amazing capture, Jurgen! Awesome! Thank you for submitting this fine shot and correctly named bird to Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group, where it is now featured on the home page. L/F
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