Pyrrhuloxia
Cardinalis sinuatus
Family: Cardinals and allies
Pyrrhuloxia is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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The nest is small and forms a bowl or cup-like shape made up of grass, twigs, or bits of tree bark.
Clutches of two to four eggs are most common, while the eggs are whitish with specks of green or gray.
The desert cardinal is a medium-sized song bird; the length for both sexes is about 8.3 in, while the typical weight is 0.8–1.5 oz.