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Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis · Family Cardinalidae

Cardinalis cardinalis

Family Cardinalidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cardinalidae
GBIF occurrence records
27,208,764
Countries and territories with records
26
Northern Cardinal
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About this species

This species has 27,208,764 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (91.4%) and Canada (8.3%); together they account for 99.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 2.2% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cardinalis cardinalis combines the genus name Cardinalis with the species epithet cardinalis. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Cardinalis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cardinalis sinuatus and Cardinalis phoeniceus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 47 species of the family Cardinalidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 28.1 times the family average (967,279). The family Cardinalidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Cardinalidae

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