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 ...

All across the southern United States, from California to the Carolinas, a slow, lazy, robinlike song is a sure sign that a summer tanager is present. Even if it isn’t singing, you may hear its ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of ... insects high in the canopy or singing for long periods without ...

“When I hear one singing, I lift my binoculars to find ... Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer ...