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 ...

A flash of red or yellow among dense foliage, followed by a husky song floating down from the treetops—it’s a common performance tanagers put on every summer. Four birds with tanager in the ...

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 North America every summer from ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of western pine forests. Although brightly plumaged, it can be quite ...