Famed artist John J. Audubon's "Cardinal Grosbeak" print of a Northern cardinal pair on wild almond appeared in his "Birds of America" as one of 435 prints of watercolor paintings.

Someday there might be more than one Northern cardinal species The cherry crested birds in Arizona don’t quite match their ruby-feathered cousins in, say, outside the White House.

This bird, called the Northern Cardinal, is North Carolina’s state bird (six other states also claim the Northern Cardinal). The News & Observer dug in to see why this bird has become so ...