What Does a Scarlet Tanager Look Like? The scarlet tanager is a medium-sized songbird, 7 inches long with a wingspan of 11-1/2 inches. The male is unmistakable in summer—bright red with black ...

Some may have dull red mixed in the plumage or may lack orange tones, resembling quite closely immature female scarlet tanagers. First-year male: mixture of red and greenish yellow, sometimes ...

Females and juvenile birds have a yellowish-green ... “Never before seen in Yorkshire, the first-winter male scarlet tanager is just the eighth British record and the first since 2014 ...