Meet the recognizable and beloved northern cardinal. Get cardinal bird facts, including why male cardinals are red, and where ...

The bully birds will sometimes hang around to eat seed that has fallen below the feeder. Place a garbage can under the feeder ...

They're gorgeous!

Purchase a very sturdy hopper feeder (this is the bird feeder you picture in your mind when you think of a backyard feeder).

Sometimes bird names are conveniently separated by directions. For instance, there are eastern and western meadowlarks. Can you guess on which side of the continent each species lives? Well, duh.

Winter can bring numerous bird visitors into your yard, but if you don't see the quintessential winter bird, the cardinal, you may have made a big mistake with placing your bird feeder. A feeder left ...

One common backyard bird that may be taken for granted also has romantic attributes worthy of Valentine’s Day. In the brown bleakness of mid-winter, the male Northern cardinal brings a flash of bright ...

Holiday images of cardinals on everything from greeting cards to table napkins are so common that the cardinal has been dubbed the “Christmas bird.” I can’t count the number of holiday greeting cards ...

In late January, something odd appeared on Charlie Stephenson’s bird feeder in Alabaster, Alabama. It looked just like a cardinal—the bright crimson bird common across the eastern United States—except ...

Bird watchers are flocking to a small Alabama city this week to catch a glimpse of a cardinal with a one-in-a-million genetic mutation that causes its bright red feathers to be a striking shade of ...