{"id":1889,"date":"2009-06-12T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:24:35","slug":"pyrrhuloxia-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/pyrrhuloxia-photo.html","title":{"rendered":"Pyrrhuloxia Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pyrrhuloxia_photo.html\">Pyrrhuloxia<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Cardinalis_sinuatus\"><em>Cardinalis sinuatus<\/em><\/a>). This was one of the two birds I was hoping to see in Arizona. In general, we do not see small colorful birds like this in Southern California (except for escaped exotics like parrots). At first I thought Pyrrhuloxia was the latin (scientific) name for this bird, but then I learned the latin name is <em>Cardinalis sinuatus<\/em>. So I guess the Pyrrhuloxia is closely related to the Cardinal (see tomorrow&#8217;s post). Regardless, it&#8217;s a pretty little bird.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pyrrhuloxia, male.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22894\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pyrrhuloxia, male, Cardinalis sinuatus, Amado, Arizona\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/cardinalis-sinuatus-pyrrhuloxia-image-22894-910326.jpg\" alt=\"Pyrrhuloxia, male, Cardinalis sinuatus, Amado, Arizona\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pyrrhuloxia, male.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22894\">22894<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pyrrhuloxia photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pyrrhuloxia_photo.html\">Pyrrhuloxia<\/a>, <a title=\"Cardinalis sinuatus photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Cardinalis_sinuatus\"><i>Cardinalis sinuatus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=amado&amp;state=arizona&amp;country=usa\">Amado<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=arizona&amp;country=usa\">Arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shot at Bill Forbes&#8217; Pond at Elephant Head, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/photographing-birds-at-bill-forbes-place-the-pond-at-elephant-head.html\">visited and described recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus). This was one of the two birds I was hoping to see in Arizona. In general, we do not see small colorful birds like this in Southern California (except for escaped exotics like parrots). At first I thought Pyrrhuloxia was the latin (scientific) name for this bird,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,148],"tags":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-1889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona","8":"category-birds","9":"tag-birds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}