{"id":1891,"date":"2009-06-13T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:23:38","slug":"northern-cardinal-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/northern-cardinal-photo.html","title":{"rendered":"Northern Cardinal Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern cardinal<\/a> (Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em><\/a>). This was the other small songbird that I hoped to see in Arizona. It is very similar to the Pyrrhuloxia (see yesterday’s post<\/a>). In fact the female cardinal looks a lot like the male Pyrrhuloxia<\/a> at first glance, although the shape of the beak (among other things) is diagnostic.<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a><\/p>\n

Northern cardinal, male.
\nImage ID: 22891<\/a>
\nSpecies: Northern cardinal<\/a>, Cardinalis cardinalis<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Amado<\/a>, Arizona<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a><\/p>\n

Northern cardinal, female.
\nImage ID: 22929<\/a>
\nSpecies: Northern cardinal<\/a>, Cardinalis cardinalis<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Amado<\/a>, Arizona<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

Shot at Bill Forbes’ Pond at Elephant Head, which I visited and described recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). This was the other small songbird that I hoped to see in Arizona. It is very similar to the Pyrrhuloxia (see yesterday’s post). In fact the female cardinal looks a lot like the male Pyrrhuloxia at first glance, although the shape of the beak (among other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,148],"tags":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-1891","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\/1891","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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}