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Female Cardinal on Tree Branch, Then Flies Away (Cabo Pulmo, 2023)

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

A female cardinal perches on a tree branch, opening and closing its beak. The bird moves its head slightly while vocalizing. It then flies away, leaving the branch empty.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentary inserts, Cabo Pulmo travel edits, nature-focused brand films, and social cuts needing a short ground-level moment of a cardinal perched among dry branches.
Edit role
Works as a six-second cutaway or transition beat, starting on the bird vocalizing on the branch and ending after the departure with the branch left empty.
Visual details
A gray and red female cardinal perches among crossing brown branches with small dark berries and pale green background foliage in hard daylight, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
Ground-camera wildlife composition holds close on the bird in the midground through dense foreground and background branches, with the final frame showing the perch after the bird leaves.

Tags

cardinalbirdtreebranchperchedbeakopenclosedredgraysingingflyingleavesnaturewildlifemotiondeparturered-crested cardinaldroneaerial

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
42 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 female cardinal with red chest coloring perches among intersecting branches and pale foliage in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, with no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the cardinal perched in a dense tree setting. (0:00)
The female cardinal remains on the branch with its orange beak open amid dry brown twigs and green background foliage in Cabo Pulmo, with no visible people.
This frame shows the bird vocalizing or opening its beak while staying perched. (0:01)
The cardinal sits partly framed by a diagonal branch and clusters of small dark berries in the Cabo Pulmo tree canopy, with no visible people.
The frame gives a clear wildlife insert with the bird surrounded by branch texture. (0:02)
The female cardinal is still perched in bright daylight with its beak open and red chest visible against pale green foliage in Cabo Pulmo, with no visible people.
This moment continues the perched vocalization before the bird leaves. (0:03)

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