Meet the five types of tanagers you might see in North America. Learn to identify tanager birds and how to attract them.

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 ...

These bright red birds are back and ready to haunt the forests of Alabama for the summer. Summer tanagers will hang around to breed until temperatures start to drop in the fall. With vibrant ...

A summer tanager’s beak is necessary for capturing flying insects, especially bees and wasps. Cardinals perch proudly in the open, but summer tanagers remain hidden behind tree leaves.

RIDGELY — The Northern Cardinal is not the only red bird in our area. While it may be the easiest red bird to see, it is not the flashiest red bird in our area. The Scarlet Tanager with its ...

The summer tanager, which stops in Houston to nest, is the only breeding bird in North ...

A bright red summer tanager made San Francisco's Glen Park Canyon home in January 2019. Courtesy SF Rec and Park Bird-watchers eye a summer tanager in San Francisco's Glen Park Canyon on Jan. 22 ...

Perhaps the most stunning of Iowa birds is the scarlet tanager. Little can compare to the flashes of red seen on a breeding plumage male in the spring or summer, usually on a contrasting green ...

I found myself standing on my roof, camera in hand, keeping an eye on a male Scarlet Tanager that was singing his heart out among the oaks. I had noticed the brilliant red-and-black bird a few ...

A: I’m not surprised you were amazed by a scarlet tanager, one of the most brilliant birds in the forest. Where cardinals are a bright red, male scarlet tanagers are a red-hot, almost electric ...

Short-distance migratory birds, like the common red-winged ... as its song is among the earliest bird songs heard at dawn in spring and summer. ... Scarlet Tanager. These vivid red birds are ...

Summer tanagers arrive in Alabama in the spring and spend the summer breeding in forests. The summer tanager is one of the "Beautiful Birds of Alabama," a series highlighting some of the state's ...