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title: "Grijze kardinaal"
description: "Cardinalis sinuatus — Vogels. The pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pyrrhuloxia
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grijze kardinaal

> Cardinalis sinuatus — Vogels. The pyrrhuloxia  or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico.

- Scientific name: *Cardinalis sinuatus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 11952
- Wikidata: [Q166985](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166985)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9081](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9081)

## Names

- en: Pyrrhuloxia
- de: Schmalschnabelkardinal
- es: Cardenal Desértico
- fr: Cardinal pyrrhuloxia
- nl: Grijze kardinaal
- pt: Cardeal-do-deserto
- pl: Kardynał karmazynowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (6985), MX (4541)

## Summary

The pyrrhuloxia  or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This distinctive species with a short, stout bill, red crest, and red wings closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal, which are in the same genus.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhuloxia

## Photo

![Grijze kardinaal](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pyrrhuloxia/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341955393

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pyrrhuloxia?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).