Plus, morning garden observations reveal distinctive butterflies that use their straw-like proboscis to extract nectar from ...

A scarlet tanager is a case in point His brilliant plumage is the first thing that attracts one to him, and one looks no further for his characteristic traits. One is likely always to think of the ...

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.

Female scarlet tanagers that need to hide from predators are the universal female bird, olive backs and yellowish bellies. This is the same color that males take on once the breeding season is done.

It had been a long time since I last saw a breeding male scarlet tanager. Eight years, in fact. And then, wow! It was just outside the door, sipping at the bubble rock on our little patio. What ...

WILD OF THE WEEK Two views of scarlet tanagers came in recent weeks. Paul Vriend emailed, “The vivid red and the jet-black colors of this scarlet tanager make for a fun day of photography.

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the ...

The scarlet tanager was the first bird that introduced me to seasonal diets. I always thought insect-eating birds eat insects, seed-eating birds eat seeds, fruit-eating birds eat fruits.

Scarlet tanager: Over 200 crowd Halifax washing line to watch extremely rare spectacle Shocked birdwatchers flocked to a peaceful cul-de-sac in Yorkshire after hearing that a rare species had been ...

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.

In one of the most dramatic transformations in the New England bird world, the male Scarlet Tanager goes from dazzling red and black to a mostly drab yellowish green for the fall migration.