Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager ... First-winter female: can lack all mustard tones and look very similar to a scarlet tanager. Adult males differ from the ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of ... Breeding male: plumage is un­mistakable. Bright yel­­low ...

But the male has more brick red plumage, not rose-red like a summer tanager. These are hepatic ... and a few can be found in Arizona even in winter. Another good place to look for this species ...