Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is ... note difference in call notes. Females more problematic and can be confused with either female scarlet or hepatic tanagers ...

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 ...

Tanagers are colorful songbirds that dot the treetops and call out a husky song across ... Check out vibrant tanager bird species to know. Hepatic tanagers are barely migratory, just withdrawing ...

Despite the bold field marks, these birds are hard to find ... Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer ...