Join sound recordist Greg Budney in our Video of the Week and learn about one of the first sounds of spring: the wonderful whistled song of the Northern Cardinal. Both male and female cardinals sing, and their songs bringing a cheerful sound to the gray days of late winter and early spring. | Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) . The pyrrhuloxia is a year-round resident of desert scrub and mesquite thickets, in the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico. | BIRDS & Nature