Birdwatchers: What is a common name for Pyrrhuloxia?

[JB]

I have a few of these cardinal-like birds at The Hideout.<br /><br />I have no idea how to pronounce it. Is there a common name that I can use in conversation?<br /><br />They look a lot like a female cardinal, but have more red, yellow (vs. red) beaks. The red on the male is at the tip of the crest and on the front. The hen is easy to mistake for a hen cardinal except for the yellow beak.<br /><br />If you don't know a common name, how the devil do you pronounce "PYRRHULOXIA??

 

[flashback]

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I did a search on google, and it seems the majority agrees that the name is grey cardinal. sounds like you need to go fishin.......have a good day.

 

[ebbtide176]

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i've never seen one in the wild, cool looking bird. i like to watch birds in the yard, and on my feeders. <br />

 

[JB]

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Thanks, Flashback.<br /><br />Grey cardinal sounds like a good name.

 

[Jack Shellac]

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JB, according to my bird dictionary, it's a cardinallike grosbeak of the Southwestern US and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot. I personnally like "gray cardinal" over "grosbeak" myself, so I think that's what I'd call it. Sounds better.

 

[SCO]

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I wish I had my sibley field guide. I'll look it up tonight, as another source, and because I like identifying birds too. I took son on a boat access only primitive campout this past weekend. Think I might have seen a piping plover. Will have to go out again with the book to make sure.

 

[OBJ]

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Sorta looks like the female Cardinal up here in Ohio JB. Course the male is all red up here. Never saw one of those before.

 

[SCO]

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No confirmation from Sibley or Petersons.

 

[BUBBA1]

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JB, maw wants to know how many them varmints you have at the hideout.<br /><br />Says they look like good eatn ifn she could get enough of them.<br /><br />That maw, always luking for some new way to fix sunday dinner.

 

[JB]

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Hmmm.<br /><br />It would probably take more that I have to make a pyrrhuloxia, stewed tomato and okra sandwich on pan pone, Bubba.<br /><br />Now armadillos, those I have in great abundance. Make jambalaya that is gooder than bugs!

 

[SCO]

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That red cardinal is a little bigger, and tastes the same! What's your favorite part of the squirrel Bubba? I joke about this, but have eaten squirrel many times.

 

[BUBBA1]

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SCO, BUBBA likes any parts that have meat onem.<br /><br />Maw likes the part that has meat onem that I don't eat. <br /><br />The best part is the hind quarters to me.<br />A lot more meat back there and the rest can be made into a stew that will make your tounge beat your false teeth plum outa yourn head.

 

[OBJ]

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It's true,,,,,peeked in at Bubba's larder once. Twelve qurarts squierrl hearts, 15 quarts hog jawls, 18 possum fats (pickled), dried greens, stewed maters, and what looked like the varmit Lem missed. And Maw still sends him cross the ice ta Krogers.

 

[snapperbait]

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JB's got armadillo!!! UMMM-UMMM, Possum on the half shell... YUMMY...