Learn how to identify a scarlet tanager. Males are reddish-orange with dark stripes on their backs and distinctive white wing markings. Female flame-colored tanagers are olive green and yellow.

In addition to the scarlet, summer, western and hepatic, a fifth type of tanager is a rare visitor. The flame-colored tanager was never found north of the Mexican border until 1985, when a male ...

Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) Bright orange head and chest, yellow belly, found in Mexico and Central America. Orange-headed Thrush (Geokichla citrina) Orange head and chest ...

In southeastern Arizona, beware of confusing the western with the flame-­colored tanager, which has 2 white wing bars, a striped red-and-black back, white tips to the tertials, and white-tipped ...