A brightly plumed red bird has come to town, and it’s busy breeding throughout local neighborhoods — and we’re not talking about our beloved northern cardinal. The newcomer is a summer tanager that ...

You’ve seen them around town. Visitors from afar, moseying about in brightly colored summer garb. No, it’s not Auntie Maude and Uncle Merle from Muskegon meandering on the mall. We’re talking about ...

These bright red birds are back and ready to haunt the forests of Alabama for the summer. Summer tanagers will hang around to breed until temperatures start to drop in the fall. With vibrant colors ...

A brilliant red bird — the sort you'd expect to find in a tropical forest — has made an unusual appearance in San Francisco's Glen Canyon Park. The summer tanager is what birders call a "vagrant," a ...

A scarlet tanager male in Warren County (Photo by Aiden Parke) “Dad, I got it, I finally got a picture of it!” was the jubilant expression I heard from my son as he proudly showed me a photo he took ...

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 made ...

The tanagers are one of the most beautiful groups of birds in the world. When you head to Latin America, various species of tanagers are high on every birder’s wish list. A lot of them are both ...

Neotropical songbirds spend winters throughout Latin America and migrate to North America in the spring to breed and raise young until time to fly back to their winter homes in the fall. It’s a round ...

Most of us are familiar with the "redbird" — the local name for the northern cardinal, but cardinals are not the only red birds here in Western North Carolina. We have two additional species that ...