Bird Sounds: Northern Cardinal

Credit: Pamela Raineri

Listen to the bird sounds of the Northern Cardinal.

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By Submitter on April 28

I'm proud to have so many cardinals who have decided to take up residence in my NC coast yard. They live in the azalea bushes. The cardinal is our state bird!

By Celia

It's 6AM on March 21, and there's a cardinal singing his heart out in my yard on the West Side of Providence, Rhode Island. Such a lovely sound to wake up to...especially in the city!

By essieb

My backyard in Pensacola FL has this sound all day long!

By Sherry P

" Mine " in my yard here in Jacksonville Florida tell me I'm "purty purty purty" every morning! I love to hear them!

By country

well im from kentucky and im also from the hills and cardnals a a veary ellagent and beautiful bird. What do you think?

By Kyle

That's what I here in my backyard all the time! Thanks Old Farmer's Almanac!

By Margaret A. Kearns

Our backyard is full of pines here at Burtchville, MI north of Port Huron in the thumb area, a mile off Lake Huron so we are apt to see one to two dozen pair of cardinals at a time at our feeder. They are awesome. I love to hear the birdie, birdie, birdie which is so distinct that one can hear it when visiting other states. We serve only black oil sunflower seeds on the feeder and suet cakes on the tree year round and have a wide variety of birds which includes yellow belly male/female woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers and downy woodpeckers daily. Also, nuthatch, house finch, wild canary (gold finch), brown thrashers to name a few. Looking forward to return of ruby throat hummingbird, baltimore oriole and rose breasted grosbeak.

By woodnymph

There are three pair of Northern Cardinal that frequent our bird feeders on the property here in rural Dobson, North Carolina almost every morning. They seem very pensive as they feed, always looking around them for predators.

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