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A bright red bird is one of the most eye-catching wonders of nature. Beyond their beauty, there is a reason behind that pop ...

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.

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 ...

Male scarlet tanagers are lookers. They have bright red bodies and dark wings. Male rose-breasted grosbeaks are accurately named for the red splash on their chests, while the females have subtler ...

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.

This healthy, 1-year-old male offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and scarlet tanager is the first-ever documented hybrid of its kind. The two species have such divergent nesting preferences ...

The scarlet tanager is a vibrant songster of eastern hardwood forests. Widespread breeders in the East, they are long-distance migrants that move all the way to South America for the winter.

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 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.

“Never before seen in Yorkshire, the first-winter male scarlet tanager is just the eighth British record and the first since 2014,” it said. The birds have thick, rounded bills for catching ...

The Northern cardinal is one of our best-known and best-loved birds. As Phil Dickinson noted in an earlier column, the cardinal has been designated the state bird not just for ...