the systematic assignment of this with 17 types and 45 types of large group of the cardinals falls heavily.
Shape they unify typical characteristics of the subfamily buntings and Tangaren so that they are summarized to an independent subfamily. For all, the stocky body with the powerful beak, that seems almost chunk-y, is typical. The males frequently wear a shining-colorful, red or blue color-dress different than the sallow-brown females.
Spread The cardinals have its spread-main focus in the tropical America, comes until South-Canada northwards, however, and southwards until Argentina before.
Way of life The birds don't live extremely sociably, is however to be usually observed an all-year pair-relationship. In most cases, the female alone, at whom Aufzucht of the boys is, breeds the male with-involved.
Red cardinal The approximately 21 cm big red cardinal or blood-cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) lives in the warmer areas of the oriental North America (from Canada's south to Florida) as well as Mexico and Honduras.
Shape Like many cardinals, it wears a bonnet from extended mop of hair-feathers, others is bonnet-loosely. The plumage of the male is blood-red, a black face-pack lounges only about the beak-root.
Way of life This seeks cardinal coverage red in thickets and sterns originally, becomes accustomed at the human being to increasing extents, however, and is little shy also in the suburbs. The birds are strong tied at its precinct. To smaller groups, they meet only in the winter if they visit common feed-places. they live mainly from insects, seeds, blooms and berries, who are taken in at the ground.
The blood-cardinal is because of its melodious, diversified chant very popular and is called nightingale" also "Virginische in America. The male, dependent on the geographical situation, can the whole year over sings. Also the female becomes chant-active in the brood-period.
Relatives types Draw near relative, the narrow-beak-cardinal (Pyrrhuloxia sinuata) is, that like the green-cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata), whom gray-cardinal (Paroaria coronata) and the Dominican-cardinal (Paroaria dominicana) are held red cardinal just as gladly as this in the aviaries of the bird-lovers.
Color-finches The smallest and most colored types of the cardinals are the color-finches (type Passerina) of 12,5-14 cm of length, that is spread from the USA to Canada. The northern ones of the six types are migratory birds. The males of the pope-finch (Passerina ciris) are fitting to North America's most colorful birds why they are liked to hold also like the other cardinal-types as cage-birds.
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