Female tanager birds dig flamboyant males. So to build plumage that really pops with orange or red or yellow, a male has to eat fruits and absorb their carotenoids. The fancy feathers he produces ...

The female scarlet tanager is similar to female summer tanager, with noticeable differences in wing coloration and bill structure. This female was photographed at Squaw Creek Park.

Seeing one has become a rare treat as this bird’s habitat is lost. Female scarlet tanagers that need to hide from predators are the universal female bird, olive backs and yellowish bellies.

Response: This is an adult female scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea. Female scarlet tanagers are often mistaken for female summer tanagers but scarlet tanagers have greener colouration and dark wings.

The birds were not hatched until the eighth of August, and while they were still in the nest I found another tanager whose domestic work had been so long completed that he had begun to change his ...

A male masked crimson tanager displays his brilliant red and black plumage in Peru. Francesco Veronesi via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Male tanagers are birds that use eye-popping colors to woo ...

The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania.

A flame-colored tanager was sighted in Sheridan Park in Cudahy, the first time the tropical species has been recorded in Wisconsin.

Now arriving in Georgia from winter grounds as far south as Peru is the scarlet tanager, whose gleaming red breeding plumage (in the male) is one of the brightest in the bird world.