Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

Northern Cardinal photographed by Hassan
Northern Cardinal photographed by Eva
Pikesville, MD, United States · January 7, 2025
Northern Cardinal photographed by Henry Haas
New York · February 2, 2025
Northern Cardinal photographed by Apple
Haslett
Northern Cardinal photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026
Northern Cardinal photographed by Henry Haas
New York · February 6, 2025
Northern Cardinal photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026
Northern Cardinal photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026
Northern Cardinal photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 27.1M open records.

Records by month. January, 2,000,720 records. February, 2,485,703 records. March, 2,603,973 records. April, 3,720,414 records. May, 4,162,902 records. June, 2,063,096 records. July, 1,719,184 records. August, 1,629,429 records. September, 1,787,939 records. October, 1,794,700 records. November, 1,482,201 records. December, 1,692,837 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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