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Red Cardinal Bird Moving Head on Tree Branch (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
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About this clip

A red cardinal bird is perched on a tree branch. It moves its head and opens its beak, likely calling. The background features bare branches and green foliage.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Cabo Pulmo travel edits, conservation pieces, nature brand films, or social cuts needing a brief close view of a red cardinal in dry brush.
Edit role
A six-second cutaway or texture beat that can sit between wider desert landscape shots, giving an edit a small wildlife detail before returning to roads, hillsides, or terrain.
Visual details
A red cardinal perches among pale bare branches with muted green foliage behind it, turning its head and showing its beak in several frames, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera wildlife composition with the bird held in the midground behind a soft screen of branches, shallow focus, no horizon, and no camera movement that can be confirmed from the stills.

Tags

cardinalbirdtreebranchperchedhead movementbeak openingnaturalredbrowngreencalmwildlifefoliagebare branchesred cardinalwinterthicketdroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
36 MB
Location
Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Red cardinal perched on a thin branch in Cabo Pulmo brush, with soft green foliage behind and no visible people.
The opening frame places the red cardinal within a tangle of pale dry branches. (0:00)
Red cardinal in Cabo Pulmo brush with its head angled across the frame, surrounded by bare twigs and no visible people.
This moment shows the bird shifting its head position while staying perched. (0:01)
Red cardinal perched amid a dense web of dry Cabo Pulmo branches, with reddish plant tips nearby and no visible people.
The frame emphasizes the cardinal seen through the surrounding thicket. (0:02)
Closer view of the red cardinal in Cabo Pulmo brush, with its back and crest visible among gray branches and no visible people.
This frame gives the buyer a tighter look at the bird's red body and crest. (0:03)

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