#scarlet tanager

[thomas--bombadil]

A Scarlet Tanager is a sneaky bird, despite being so bright and red. It spends its whole life in the treetops, away from our eyes.

But sometimes, especially in the spring, we can get a glimpse of this beautiful creature.

[mothmiso]

Woods Path (2) (3) (4) by Holly Kilpatrick

[vintagewildlife]

Juvenile scarlet tanager By: Arthur A. Allen From: The Book of Bird Life 1961

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Scarlet Tanager Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[boy-warbler]

Scarlet Tanager, Danforth Ave.

[rolitae]

[dandysphinx]

I wanted to sculpt something for my brother's birthday and asked him what one of his favorite birds he'd seen in the place he was currently living was, and he said a Scarlet Tanager!

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[nemfrog]

Scarlet tanager. The First Book of Birds. 1927.

Internet Archive

[findingmindely]

Scarlet Tanager

[swede1952]

Morning catch, 20230920

Here is a scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea), female I think, on her way to South America, I'm sure. She was hanging around in an oak tree beyond my fence. This is the first time to photograph one of these, maybe I'll see a male. Who knows.

"Male Scarlet Tanagers are among the most blindingly gorgeous birds in an eastern forest in summer, with blood-red bodies set off by jet-black wings and tail. They’re also one of the most frustratingly hard to find as they stay high in the forest canopy singing rich, burry songs. The yellowish-green, dark-winged females can be even harder to spot until you key in on this bird’s chick-burr call note. In fall, males trade red feathers for yellow-green and the birds take off for northern South America." - allaboutbirds.org

[tincel-cat]

Two hours in, one hour left

(My art assessment for this module)

[uwmspeccoll]

A Red-Flourish Feathursday

Today we present a chromolithograph of a male Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), a male and female Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), and a male and female Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) from a painting by German naturalist and artist Anton Goering (1836-1905), reproduced in our 2-volume set of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling, and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder from 1893-1896.

The Tanager and Grosbeak are currently in the Cardinal family, while the Towhee is a sparrow. All three are fairly common in our neighborhood, but unfortunately, we rarely see them. However, we do hear them, or at least we think we hear them, since the song of the Tanager and Grosbeak are similar, and even worse, they both sound, to our ears, somewhat similar to the very common American Robin, which is an unrelated thrush:

Scarlet Tanager song

Rese-breasted Grosbeak song

American Robin song

Fortunately, the Towhee has a very distinctive call that we find easily recognizable:

Eastern Towhee song

Because German was prominently spoken in Milwaukee through the middle of the 20th century, these birds are also identified in Nehrling's book by their common German names:

Scarlet Tanager = Scharlachtangara

Rose-breasted Grosbeak = Rosenbrüstiger Kernbeisser

Eastern Towhee = Erdfink

View more posts from Nehrling’s Our Native Birds.

View more Feathursday posts.

[geopsych]

He was way up at the top of a very tall tree so the pictures aren’t very good but I love them so I’m posting them anyway: a male scarlet tanager, possibly our brightest-colored bird, returned from the tropics a few days ago and setting the bounds of his territory with song. Welcome back friend! I hope life here is good, you find a happy mate and you raise many new tanagers to return next year!

[redbird-art]

Day 12: female

Another scarlet tanager, not so scarlet this time

[sketchy--doodles]

Backyard Bird Cuties! Disney style birds!

American Crow

Barn Swallow

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker

Scarlet Tanager

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[nncastle]

The Flame of Spring (Scarlet Tanager) hangs out in my woods, but is often hard to spot. This is a beautiful rare bird and it’s always a joy when I get a glimpse of it. So bright.