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 ...

Some may have dull red mixed in the plumage or may lack orange tones, resembling quite closely immature female scarlet tanagers. First-year male: mixture of red and greenish yellow, sometimes ...

Voice: Males sing a hoarse robin like song. The calls include a rough pi-ter-rik. Scarlet Tanagers are the Eastern counterpart of the Western Tanager. Breeding males are bright red with black ...

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 ...