Learn about the American Red Cardinal from the eye-witness accounts in this letter written by John James Audubon.
The American Red Cardinal Calls
Red Cardinal Song 1
Red Cardinal Song 2 | singing from an interior perch, 1 m up in leafless scrub; nice terminal trill on many songs.
Red Cardinal Song 3 | male from an exposed perch 12 m up on a dead ash tree; several songs have the terminal trill.
Red Cardinal Song 4 | song at dawn; not seen.
Red Cardinal Call | high-pitched, rapid calls of a female, a male singing not too far away, but purpose of calls not clear; in leafless mesquites and acacias on a slope near the riparian.