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The Cardinal: A Southerner Moves North

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:01:45
Publish Date: 2024-12-21 08:00:00
Description:

Holiday cards often feature gorgeous red cardinals against a snowy landscape. So it’s easy to assume the birds have always been a colorful presence in bleak Northern winters. But cardinals used to be Southern birds. By the second half of the 20th century, though, they were nesting as far north as Maine, the northern Midwest, and even southern Canada.

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