๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Northern Cardinal live?

Cardinalis cardinalis has 27,190,729 records in 23 countries and territories, from 1837 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal โ€” Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesCardinalidaeCardinalis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 24,847,668
Canada 2,253,614
Mexico 71,154
Bermuda 10,815
Belize 6,932
Guatemala 320
Netherlands 87
Belgium 45
Colombia 21
Germany 13
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 10
Nepal 5
Denmark 4
Honduras 4
Norway 3
Bahamas 2
Switzerland 2
United Kingdom 2
France 1
Greece 1
Israel 1
Poland 1
Sweden 1

Related animals

Others in the family Cardinalidae.

Indigo Bunting
Indigo Bunting
3,988,074 records
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager
1,936,366 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.