Cardinalidae

Cardinalidae is a family of passerine birds native to the Americas, including cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, and related songbirds.

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Passerine: A bird in the order Passeriformes, the largest bird order, commonly called perching birds or songbirds. Cardinalidae belongs to this order of perching birds.
Northern Cardinal: A red-crested songbird common across eastern and central North America. This familiar species gives the family its common English name.
New World: The Americas and nearby islands, named in contrast to the Old World. The family’s native range is confined to this broad geographic region.
Blue Grosbeak: A large-billed blue songbird that breeds across parts of the Americas. It demonstrates the family’s broad distribution beyond the cardinal’s northern range.
Cardinalis: A genus of North American birds that includes the Northern Cardinal and Pyrrhuloxia. This genus contains the family’s best-known cardinal species.
Pyrrhuloxia: A gray and red desert songbird of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its dry-country adaptations contrast with those of many forest-dwelling cardinalids.
Passeriformes: The largest order of birds, encompassing perching birds and most songbirds. This is the order that contains Cardinalidae and its closest family-level comparisons.
Dickcissel: A grassland songbird of the Americas with a stout bill and a distinctive breeding-season song. Its grassland specialization broadens the family’s ecological profile.
Piranga: A genus of brightly colored American songbirds commonly called tanagers, now classified in Cardinalidae. Its placement shows that Cardinalidae includes birds not usually called cardinals.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak: A migratory North American songbird with a black-and-white body and a rose-colored breast patch. It represents the grosbeaks, another prominent group within Cardinalidae.