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ForestCup nestSmall · 29 g
What the Summer Tanager sounds like
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Adults have stout, pointed bills and measure 17 cm (6.7 in) in length and weigh a mean 30.1 g (1.06 oz), ranging from 25.8–33.6 g (0.99–1.19 oz). Wingspan ranges from 28 to 30 cm. Adult males are rose red and similar in appearance to the hepatic tanager, although the latter has a dark bill; females are orangish on the underparts and olive on top, with olive-brown wings and tail. As with all other birds, all red and orange colorations are acquired through their diet. The summer tanager has an American robin-like song, similar enough that novices sometimes mistake this bird for that species.
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When to see the Summer Tanager
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Summer Tanager
The map shades 34 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Grenada, Martinique, St. Barthélemy, U.S. Virgin Islands.
About the Summer Tanager
The summer tanager is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.
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Easily confused with
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivaceaThe scarlet tanager, a mid-sized passerine, is marginally the smallest of the four species of Piranga that breed north of the Mexican border.
Western TanagerPiranga ludovicianaMeasurements:
Length: 6.3–7.5 in (16–19 cm)
Weight: 0.8–1.3 oz (24–36 g)
Wingspan: 11.5 in (29 cm)
Adults have pale, stout pointed bills, yellow underparts, and light wing bars.
Hepatic TanagerPiranga flavaThe red tanager is a medium-sized American songbird in the family Cardinalidae.
Side by side: Scarlet Tanager vs Summer Tanager · Summer Tanager vs Western Tanager
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