Red Cardinals. Very typical in Brazil, Uruguay and the NE of Argentina, tropical bird

HOW DAMN ARRIVED TO HERE?
almost 1200 kms to the south of the souther zone where are supposed to be, in a very cold -not yet, but soon- szone, with lot of wind -as last night, around 110 kms/h of wind- and obviosully almost without plants here in the desert???

I had one as pet lot of years ago, and i really can´t belive i saw 2 wild ones in the street....