### animal | vertebrate | bird | finch:

Cardinal
* Most cardinals are cardinal priests
  - eat bugs
* Most cardinals have beaks
  - cones
  - crests
  - distinctive crests
  - shape beaks
* Some cardinals eat seeds
  - have distinctive alarm calls
* Some cardinals inhabit national parks
  - live in the same place for their whole life
  - sit on fences
* also eat seeds, wild fruit, leaf buds, berries and flowers
  - feed on weeds, wild fruit, grain, worms, and beetles
  - mate for life
* are North America's only crested all-red bird.
* are a native bird of Canada
  - tough fish to spawn
  - active songbirds and sing a variety of different melodies
  - approximately eight and three fourths inches in length
  - bishops
  - catholic priests
  - cheery birds, both in song and appearance
  - especially fond of roosting and nesting in honeysuckle thickets
  - films
  - grapes
  - known to eat over a hundred kinds of fruits and seeds in the wild
  - leaders
  - less selective during winter in the colder climates
  - nonmigratory, but some movement does occur in the later summer and fall
  - numbers
* are one of the few songbirds in our area for which females, as well as males, sing
  - most popular birds for people who put out bird feeders
  - permanent residents of Alabama
  - southern birds, but gradually their range has extended northward
  - territorial and very aggressive
  - unusual among our smaller birds because in most species just the male sings
  - very common birds at bird feeders
* begin singing early in the month.
* commonly sing and preen from a high branch of a shrub.
* consume insects.
* eat a large number of seeds and insects
  - varied diet consisting of fruit, insects, seeds and spiders
  - different kinds of food including insects, seeds, grains and fruits
  - fruit, wheat and bugs
  - many kinds of birdseed, particularly black oil sunflower seed
  - mostly seeds however they do eat insects during breeding season
* eat seeds, insects, snails, and maple sap
  - small insects, and wild fruit
* enjoy nesting in parks, gardens, and farms but prefer open woodlands.
* establish surround territory
* feed on grain
  - insects, worms, and seeds of weeds and wild fruits
  - upon seeds mainly but sometimes eat insects
* have a red hat, and archbishops and bishops a green hat
  - different habitat preferences regardless of the type of vegetation
  - heavy thick bills used to crack seeds
  - red fethers and yellow beaks
  - three main functions in the church
  - faces
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sterna
* like to eat seeds, fruits, and insects
  - forage for food at dawn and dusk
  - nest in thick tangled bushes near the edges of woods
  - in the Eastern United States from South Dakota, southern Minnesota, and Mexico
* love sunflower seeds, especially the black, oil-type seeds.
* love to drink and bath in bubbling creeks, springs and steams
* make cheerful songs
* nest among leafy branches
  - in dense foliage and look for conspicuous, fairly high perches for singing
* never nest in nest boxes.
* open mouths.
* prefer bushy woodlands, evergreens, streamside thickets, and suburban gardens and parks.
* prefer to eat sunflower seed, safflower seed, and cracked corn
  - nest in shrubbery and low trees that face open ground
* remain faithful to their pair for till the end of breeding season.
* sing songs.
* start their songs as dawn breaks, opening the chorus of bird songs greeting the day.
* stay busy making nests, because they typically only use each nest once.
* survive on a diet made up mostly of insects.
* tend to build their nests without much consideration location wise
  - mate for life and stay together year-round
* work like adjectives when modifying nouns.