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This male cardinal perches on a gray branch that leans to the left while the cardinal leans slightly to the right facing the camera with its head turned left. The cardinal is completely red except for a black mask that surrounds its red beak and black eye. Its crest stands high on its head like a sail on a boat. "The Northern Cardinal is a fairly large, long-tailed songbird with a short, very thick bill and a prominent crest. Cardinals often sit with a hunched-over posture and with the tail pointed straight down. Male cardinals are brilliant red all over, with a reddish bill and black face immediately around the bill. Females are pale brown overall with warm reddish tinges in the wings, tail, and crest. They have the same black face and red-orange bill." - allaboutbirtds.org