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 ...

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 ...