The painted rice cardinal is a small bird about 13 centimeters long. Males have bright plumage with a blue head, green back, and red belly, while females are green.
The painted oat cardinal differs from close species with the bright multicolored coloration of males, which is not found in other buntings. It helps control insect populations and disperses plant seeds in nature.
meadows, prairies, forb glades on land
Worker
birth time
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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When your next jubilee falls in {name} life years
Human
days
South and Central America, hot and humid, huge forests
Warm summer
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
beak
adult
Maturity
South and Central America, hot and humid, huge forests
invertebrates
About health
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
Repro interval
results
land coast flooded by tides — salt marshes, littoral zone
aerial
summer warm, winter not very cold
Colors
Sex
Underparts color
Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
mo
Uses jaws or beak to break hard-shelled or tough food items.
Trophic type
all living animals without backbone
Filters
seeds of cereals and meadow grasses
Upcoming birthdays
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
leaf
Height
Desert and dry shrubs
16 to 24 grams, 7 – 12 centimeters
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
Age (embryo)
Wanderers
Food items are collected from exposed outer surfaces of substrates.
Feeding occurs in open air space above ground or water.
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
Warm summer and frequent rains
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
fruits
Lifespan average
young after fast growth
Juvenile stage following larval metamorphosis but not yet adult.
seed
summer warm, rains frequent
What do they look like?
Maturity
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
Wings color
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
end of acceleration
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
hot, uneven rains, lots of grass and trees
flight
Pets
Nearctic realm
terrestrial shrubland
Feeding occurs primarily on land or in vegetation.
{name} jubilee
terrestrial shrub habitats — maquis, chaparral, bush
cm
Old-timers
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Wingspan
Eggshell color
turns
Rascals
terrestrial forest
terrestrial grassland and steppe
terrestrial herbaceous
terrestrial intertidal
Flooded grasslands
grasshoppers and crickets
Litter size
Tropical savanna
Back color
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
°C
Not specified
Actively searching habitats to locate food items.
Where are they found?
Down color
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Elders
Bro
Taxons
seeds, berries, fruits
if born as {name}
omnivore
beetles
age
birth date
Close
was
Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
The basics
climbing
Neotropical realm
My weight?
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
surface
primary food sources
Neotropical realm
teeth
Beak size
Potential Habitat
Very hot summer
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Mass
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
terrestrial
Gestation
summer very hot, above +25…+30 °C
{name} birthday
Food is gathered directly from leaf surfaces.
Nearctic realm
No results found
North America and Greenland, from tundra to forests
caterpillars
On the map
grass seeds
all life stages
Female ♀
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Beak count
birth year
lots of grass, few trees, rains occur
Maturity
terrestrial habitat, land surface outside water
sq mm
yr
Beak color
How similar?
Male ♂
until the celebration
baby / chick
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
Legs color
What if eaten?
spiders
Neither
Moving up vertical surfaces like trunks or rocks to reach food.
butterfly and moth caterpillars
from birth to adulthood
live beetles — various species
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
nest
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
from birth to death
Plumage color
Hard dental structures used to bite, tear, or scrape food.
forests on land — tropical, temperate, boreal
water often floods the land, lots of grass
Temperate mixed forest
Duration
This is me
Always very wet
Gamers
crushing
How are they built?
Temperate steppe
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
Stars
Link copied
My age?
wk
My size?
live spiders — arachnids of all sizes
terrestrial
Asexual
swap
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
Warm summer and lots of rain
Head color
celebrated their {n} birthday
live grasshoppers, crickets, locusts
open grassy spaces — steppes, savannas, prairies
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
foraging
Capturing or collecting food while airborne.
whole life
Hermaphrodite ⚥
Mandarin
North America and Greenland, from tundra to forests
embryo
Hard, projecting mouthpart used to probe, pluck, or crack food.
summer warm, many oaks, birches, maples
Length
kg
very hot and dry, rare rains, cacti live
lots of rain, warm and pleasant summer
Observations
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