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Meet the western tanager

See what a male and female western tanager looks like and hear its song. Western tanagers migrate through valleys, plains, and foothills.
The tanagers are one of the most beautiful groups of birds in the world. When you head to Latin America, various species of tanagers are high on every birder’s wish list. A lot of them are both ...
Green-tailed towhees, white-crowned sparrows, western tanagers, black-headed grosbeaks, lazuli buntings, lesser goldfinches, Bullock’s and Scott’s orioles, and lots of broad-tailed and black-chinned ...
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 ...