West of the Great Plains lives another tanager with a more varied color pattern. A male western tanager is a flashy bird with a bright yellow body, red head, black tail and wings. Its wings have ...

The striking black-and-yellow western tanager, with its bright red head, is one of the more characteristic summer species of western pine forests. Although brightly plumaged, it can be quite ...

Western tanagers are migratory birds that are present in Northern California in the spring and again in late summer. A new study shows that observations by 'citizen scientists' using apps such as ...

Western tanagers are fiery, eye-catching fliers. “Is this scarlet tanager’s interesting plumage (above) because of age or a seasonal thing?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Nancy Tully.