Yellow Cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata) | Photos and ID

ENEndangeredSeeds

WoodlandCup nestSmall · 48 g

When to see the Yellow Cardinal

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow Cardinal

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Argentina

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.

About the Yellow Cardinal

The yellow cardinal is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of its genus, Gubernatrix.

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Easily confused with

Inti TanagerHeliothraupis oneilliThis is a brightly colored bird with yellow plumage in both sexes, a black supercilium, and a salmon-colored bill. Black-and-tawny SeedeaterSporophila nigrorufaThe black-and-tawny seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Venezuelan FlowerpiercerDiglossa venezuelensisThe Venezuelan flowerpiercer is, on average, 12.7 cm (5.0 in) long.

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