Northern cardinal

(Cardinalis cardinalis)

Range: North America; from southeastern Canada to Belize and northern Guatemala.

Subspecies

• C. c. cardinalis: Along the eastern US seaboard, until Georgia

• C. c. affinis: Eastern Mexico (southeastern Sonora to southwestern Chihuahua and western Durango)

• C. c. canicaudatus: Western Oklahoma and western Texas to east-central Mexico

• C. c. carneus: Coastal western Mexico (Colima to Isthmus of Tehuantepec)

• C. c. clintoni: Isla Cerralvo, in the Gulf of California

• C. c. coccineus: Eastern Mexico (Eastern San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, northeastern Puebla, and northern Oaxaca)

• C. c. flammiger: Quintana Roo in southeastern Mexico, as well as Belize and Guatemala (Petén)

• C. c. floridanus: Southeastern Georgia and Peninsular Florida

• C. c. igneus: Southern Baja California

• C. c. littoralis: Lowlands of eastern Mexico (Southern Veracruz and Tabasco)

• C. c. magnirostris: Southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana

• C. c. mariae: Islas Marías, off western Mexico

• C. c. phillipsi: Southeastern Mexico

• C. c. saturatus: Cozumel, off Yucatán Peninsula

• C. c. seftoni: Central Baja California

• C. c. sinaloensis: Coastal western Mexico (Sinaloa and Jalisco)

• C. c. superbus: Southeastern California to Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, including northern Sonora

• C. c. townsendi: Isla Tiburón, including adjacent coastline in Sonora

• C. c. yucatanicus: Yucatán Peninsula