northern cardinal
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Latin: Cardinalis cardinalis
JP: ショウジョウコウカンチョウ shoujoukoukanchou
A mid-sized songbird with a distinctive crest on the head. Males are vibrant red with a black face-mask which covers the base of the beak and eyes to the upper throat. (Females are reddish-olive with a grey mask.) The beak is red.
Cardinals are native to North America, where they can be found in the Eastern U.S. through Canada and parts of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.