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 ...

and the Summer Tanager’s plumage is red all over. It’s with the Flame-colored Tanager that things get a bit complicated since their chests are almost the same hue of orange. To tell them apart ...

Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer from their tropical wintering grounds. The most widely known is ...