Billie’s not keen on having a gecko in the house—even less so after we discover two in different rooms the next day—but ...

Dense shrubs and trees provide nesting and shelter for cardinals. Pyrrhuloxia is also known as the desert cardinal. It is a close relative of the northern cardinal, so they look fairly similar to ...

A close relative, the pyrrhuloxia—a gray and red beauty often called a desert cardinal—lives along the same streams, also moving into much dryer zones that cardinals avoid. Food is sometimes ...