Desert Cardinal 24x16 from Fred Lord Photography.Male Pyrrhuloxia or Desert Cardinal near Tucson, Arizona.Pyrrhuloxia are colorful Inhabitants of the southwest arid regions of the North American continent.These are close cousins of the even more colorful Northern Cardinals found throughout the southern and eastern parts of North America.A year-round resident of desert areas and mesquite thickets, in the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and woodland edges in Mexico.Photographed at Amado, Arizona in February, 2016.