Endangered
Yellow Cardinal
Gubernatrix cristata
Yellow Cardinal is a perching bird in the family Thraupidae (order Passeriformes) — Gubernatrix cristata, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The yellow cardinal is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Published measurements include mass about 48.
Range and habitat
It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss and from pet trade trappers for sale as exotic pets.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Yellow Cardinal is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Yellow Cardinal, Wikidata item Q550274. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
