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 ...

Despite the bold field marks, these birds are hard to ... Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer from their tropical ...

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 ...

He said he usually travels up to two hours to see birds ... scarlet tanager in the UK, let alone in Yorkshire. 'It should be ...