Learn all about the pyrrhuloxia, or desert cardinal, a bird found in the Southwest. See what this species looks like and how to attract it.

What you saw was a pyrrhuloxia, also known as a desert cardinal. The males do have sort of a reddish tint and they are related to the cardinals you were used to back East.

This close cousin of the much flashier northern cardinal, which is mostly found outside our area and throughout the eastern U.S., is subtler in both plumage and song.

But Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Dan O'Malley discovered a desert dweller there. O'Malley, ... commonly known as a desert cardinal, ...

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