| Pyrrhuloxia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Cardinalis |
| Species: | C. sinuatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte, 1838
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The pyrrhuloxia /ˌpɪrəˈlɒksiə/[2] or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird 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.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cardinalis sinuatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22723825A94835938. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22723825A94835938.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Pyrrhuloxia". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.