Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...

Throughout summer, scarlet tanagers are widespread in the eastern ... molting their bright red feathers and replacing them with yellow-green tones like those of the female. Males go through ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of ... and white-tipped tail feathers. The western has hybridized with ...