sometimes with entirely red head and breast. 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 ...

According to Cornell University's Cornell Lab of Ornithology, male scarlet tanagers are the only birds in North America that are completely red all the way through. Another fascinating fact about ...

But the male has more brick red plumage, not rose-red like a summer tanager. These are hepatic tanagers, members of a tropical species that’s very widespread, found all the way south to Argentina.

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more ... Its bill is small for a Piranga, larger in size than the scarlet’s, but smaller than other species ...