The cardinalon your desktop.
A painted northern cardinal for your Mac or Windows desktop, one of six Deskiee birds.
What it looks like
A male northern cardinal: red all over, with a pointed crest, a black mask around a thick red bill, and a long tail.
What it does all day
The cardinal walks along the bottom of your screen, flies up to the top edge of a window you have open and stands there. Move the window and it rides along; close it and it drops off and finds somewhere else. Drag it to carry it, or tap a rhythm and it sings it back.
Its own moves
- When it is dizzy it chips its bill at every wobble.
With chirps switched on (they start off), it has its own call and song, modelled on the real bird's.
The real bird
Northern cardinals live in eastern and central North America and south through Mexico, and stay all year round.
Only the male is this red. Females are a warm brown with red in the wings, tail and crest.
The heavy bill is made for cracking seeds.
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