First-winter female: can lack all mustard tones and look very similar to a scarlet tanager. Adult males differ from the scarlet tanager by lacking black wings. The male hepatic tanager is more ...

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 western is the only regular North American tanager with wing bars. Note its yellow underwing linings in flight. Its bill is small for a Piranga, larger in size than the scarlet’s ...