Yellow-billed Cardinal

Is the Yellow-billed Cardinal a passeriform related to the Thraupidae, the Emberizidae or the Cardinalidae? One thing is for sure: you can immediately notice its vivid red head, its strong yellow beak, its black throat, its white stomach with white colour going up to its chest. A very clear white collar is visible between its red head and its black colour that reaches up to the nape, its coverts, its remiges and its tail are black. Its black eye has an almost red orange eyering and a dark, more or less clear mark that surrounds it depending on the individual. Its legs are yellow. There is no dimorphism between the sexes, the young will first have an orange head before getting their parents' red head.