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elleng

(130,857 posts) Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:55 PM Oct 2021

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Caught 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 OP

Looks like a juvenile male cardinal that hasn't quite Phoenix61 Oct 2021 #1

Female Cardinal jpak Oct 2021 #2

Yes, definitely one or the other. ShazzieB Oct 2021 #4

we have pyrrhuloxia but I don't think you do Kali Oct 2021 #3

Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)

1. Looks like a juvenile male cardinal that hasn't quite

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:57 PM

Oct 2021

rid himself of his baby feathers.

jpak

(41,757 posts)

2. Female Cardinal

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:57 PM

Oct 2021

Or juvenile male

ShazzieB

(16,354 posts)

4. Yes, definitely one or the other.

Reply to jpak (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 6, 2021, 10:08 PM

Oct 2021

The crest isn’t clearly visible in the first pic, but you can see it in the second one, sticking up like a tiny Mohawk.

Kali

(55,007 posts)

3. we have pyrrhuloxia but I don't think you do

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 02:09 PM

Oct 2021

so probably female or juvenile cardinal

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