A belly banded cardinal?

by Barbara
(League City, Texas, USA)

We have an obvious cardinal but he is marked with a bright reddish orange band across his stomach. His neck is gray and the rest of him looks like a female cardinal. I wonder because the band across his or her stomach is bold and more like a male cardinal would be. What am I looking at?

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