EL CARDINAL Duninald, known as Cardinal measures approximately guajiro 19 cm, the male presents bright red crown with long ridge and acute his face and coverts headphones are bright red with a black band and narrow around the base of the peak, generally wider at the chin, their upper parts are more opaque red becoming brighter tailbone. Supracaudals presents coverts reddish brown, parduzacas primary and pale red rectrices and below is bright red.

Unlike female having bluish white peak with the tip of the upper jaw in black. His head is gray with long sharp bright red crest; sides of the head brownish whitish areas on the sides of the forehead and under the cheeks, sometimes also around the eye; Juveniles are similar to the female but browner.

It is a long and sharp unmistakable species due to the combination of robust beak and crest. It is located in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. In Colombia it is below 300 m above sea level on the peninsula of La Guajira and inhabits arid and semiarid scrub with good coverage of cactus and thorny bushes, feeding on invertebrates, fruits and seeds.