Stocky, medium-sized songbird with a tall crest and a long tail. It has a heavy but short seed-cracking yellow bill. Adult males are grayish overall with red highlights on the wings, crest, and tail as well as a red mask and belly stripe.
Stocky, long-tailed bird with a short and heavy bill. Adult females are grayish with red highlights on the crest, wings, and tail. Note yellow bill.
Immatures look like females, but have a darker bill and have fewer red highlights.
Long-tailed and crested songbird. Adult males are gray with a red mask and belly as well as red highlights on the crest, wings, and tail. Note thick yellow seed-eating bill.
Yellow parrotlike bill is distinctive. Males are grayish overall with red highlights on the crest, wings, and tail.
Found in desert scrub, dry grasslands, and open mesquite forest.
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Pyrrhuloxias are stocky, medium-sized songbirds with tall crests and long tails. They have heavy but short seed-cracking bills with a curved culmen, or upper edge.
About the size of a Northern Cardinal; larger than a Black-throated Sparrow.
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