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 ...

The female is more subtly colored, sporting soft yellow-green with darker wings and ... robinlike song is a sure sign that a summer tanager is present. Even if it isn’t singing, you may hear ...

“That color is unmistakable! It sure catches your eye against the green of the trees.” Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of ... Breeding female: duller, mostly green­ish ­yellow below, grayish ...