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Related: About this forumCaught these @ home, as returned yesterday. Some kind of red bird:


(Cardinal? Tanager? Finch?)
THANKS, guys!
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Caught these @ home, as returned yesterday. Some kind of red bird: (Original Post)
elleng
Oct 2021
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Phoenix61
(18,768 posts)1. Looks like a juvenile male cardinal that hasn't quite
rid himself of his baby feathers.
jpak
(41,780 posts)2. Female Cardinal
Or juvenile male
ShazzieB
(22,333 posts)4. Yes, definitely one or the other.
The crest isnt clearly visible in the first pic, but you can see it in the second one, sticking up like a tiny Mohawk.
Kali
(56,695 posts)3. we have pyrrhuloxia but I don't think you do
so probably female or juvenile cardinal