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.

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 Scarlet Tanager with its brilliant red body and black wings and tail is an amazing sight. The Summer Tanager is the only all red bird in the U.S.

Red birds are awesome. But our western tanager is definitely the best — red, orange, yellow, and black. All four species are in the genus, Piranga.

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager, found in western Pennsylvania, is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." ...

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

Our other bright red male bird, the male Northern Cardinal, sports a tuft on its head, which the Tanager does not.