I put on gloves, slipped outside and placed the stunned bird inside a box next to a space heater. A wildlife app identified it as a hepatic tanager, but I was skeptical. It looked like a male ...

Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America ... The male hepatic tanager is more brick red in color and ...

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 ...