Pyrrhuloxia

- The Pyrrhuloxia (peer-uh-LOX-ee-a) or Desert Cardinal is a medium-sized North American songbird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico
- This distinctive species with a short, stout bill and red crest and wings, and closely resembles the northern cardinal and the vermilion cardinal, which are in the same genus
- Like the Vermilion Flycatcher, the Pyrrhuloxia is threatened by loss of riparian habitat throughout the American southwest
- Regular resident of southern Arizona