The summer feeds mainly on fruit ... First-winter female: can lack all mustard tones and look very similar to a scarlet tanager. Adult males differ from the scarlet tanager by lacking black ...

It sure catches your eye against the green of the trees.” Did you know: Four cousins of the western tanager—scarlet, summer, hepatic and flame-colored—fly to North America every summer from ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of ... larger in size than the scarlet’s, but smaller than other species ...