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Desert Cardinal Moves Among Dry Branches (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

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

A cardinal bird moves among dry, thorny branches in a sandy desert area. The bird occasionally shifts position, pecking at the bush. The surrounding environment is arid with sparse vegetation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for nature documentary inserts, Baja California Sur travel edits, wildlife social cuts, or agency mood reels needing a small desert bird foraging in dry brush.
Edit role
Best as a short cutaway or texture beat between wider Cabo Pulmo desert shots, giving an editor six seconds of close wildlife detail inside thorny scrub.
Visual details
A reddish-brown cardinal is partly hidden among gray dry branches over pale sandy ground, with muted desert colors, soft daylight, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera framing stays tight on the bush, with branches filling the foreground and midground and no sky or horizon visible in the sampled frames.

Tags

cardinalbirddesertbushdry branchessandy groundmovingforagingredbrowngrayaridnaturalquietdryanimalhiddenwildlifedroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
40 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.

A reddish-brown cardinal is partly visible behind gray thorny branches on sandy ground in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with no visible people.
The opening frame shows the bird tucked into dense dry brush for a close wildlife insert. (0:00)
A small reddish cardinal sits deeper behind tangled gray branches over pale desert sand in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, with no visible people.
This moment keeps the bird mostly concealed, emphasizing the scrub texture around it. (0:01)
The cardinal appears between crossing dry limbs, with gray brush in the foreground and sandy Cabo Pulmo ground behind it, and no visible people.
The frame gives editors a clearer glimpse of the bird through the branch pattern. (0:02)
Reddish cardinal behind dense thorny brush

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