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 ...

Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer ... to stake his claim. A female scouts out a nesting site almost as soon as she arrives at the breeding grounds.

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager ... but female westerns usually show a yellow upper bar. Also, some worn westerns show little or no wing bars, but when compared to the scarlet ...