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 ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of western pine forests. Although brightly plumaged, it can be quite ...

Lee Vitale snapped these photos of a red bird on her backyard bird feeder. Lee's husband, Marc, writes that the bird is "a relatively rare visitor: a Summer Tanager. He knows that Fremont is a ...

It sure catches your eye against the green of the trees.” Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer from ...