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While working on trimming our hedges, I noticed a nest with three very young baby Cardinals in it. I knew they were Cardinals because a female and male Cardinal kept flying back and forth to the nest to feed the young ones. I also included photos of the suspected parents in this project.
Good News: We have seen who we believe are the three little ones hopping around in our back yard with the beautiful red Dad. They appear healthy and happy. Witnessing them growing up and seeing the parent birds nurture them was a fantastic experience.
My research taught me that instead of the bright orange beak both adults flash, a young cardinal's beak will be dark. Sometimes very dark, almost black, and sometimes lighter and tannish. But it is not orange!
I also learned that both male and female sing all year round. Females sing from their nest to tell the male when to bring food. The pair shares some melodic phrases but the female has a more elaborate song, which is unusual in singing birds. The melody is pleasant and it resembles a whistle, but sometimes they make more mechanical “clinks”. As cardinals do not seem to need a lot of sleep, you may hear them singing in the morning well before sunrise. (And we did!)
Since cardinals do not migrate, they live their entire lives within one or two kilometer (0.62 miles -1.24 miles) radius of where they were born. This means we might keep seeing our three “little” ones around our block. Plus, cardinals are known to live around fifteen years!
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