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Northern Cardinal  -
(Cardinalis cardinalis) 

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Identification

  • Medium-sized songbird with crest
  • Male bright red with red-orange bill, black
         a    round beak
  • Female greyish tan with orange bill, feathers tinged with red in varying amounts
  • Juvenile like female with dark bill
  • 8-9" (21-23 cm.)

Habitat

  • Shrubby areas, woodland and field edges

Additional Information

  • Year-round resident
  • Very common in southern two-thirds
         of Wisconsin
  • Expanding its range northward in Wisconsin
  • Often the first bird of the season to begin
         singing--on a sunny day in January
         or early February 

Norther Cardinal perched on a log

Male and Female cardinals on a branch during snow 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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