The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ... resembling quite closely immature female scarlet tanagers. First-year male: mixture of red and greenish yellow, sometimes blotchy ...

Scarlet Tanagers are the Eastern counterpart of the ... The yellow throat is narrower than on Western Meadowlark. The malar feathers down from the lower mandible of the beak are white.

The most widely known is the scarlet tanager, a summer resident of the ... pine needles and feathers. The female lays three to five bluish-green eggs with irregular brown spots.

Its bill is small for a Piranga, larger in size than the scarlet ... tanager, which has 2 white wing bars, a striped red-and-black back, white tips to the tertials, and white-tipped tail feathers.