What is Scarlet Tanager?

About Scarlet Tanager:

• It is a strikingly beautiful songbird native to North America.
• Scientific Name: Piranga olivacea
• Habitat: Breeds in deciduous and mixed deciduous-evergreen forests; winters in forests and forest edges.
• They migrate to tropical forests in Central and South America during winter.
• Features:
• They are medium-sized songbirds with fairly stocky proportions. They average seven inches in length.
• They have thick, rounded bills suitable both for catching insects and eating fruit.
• The head is fairly large, and the tail is somewhat short and broad.
• In spring and summer, adult males are unmistakable, brilliant red with black wings and tails.
• Females and fall immatures are olive-yellow with darker olive wings and tails.
• After breeding, adult males molt to female-like plumage, but with black wings and tails.
• The Scarlet Tanager's song is often described as sounding like a “robin with a cold.” The bird's call, an emphatic “chip-burr,” is also distinctive and often can be a giveaway to the bird's location in a leafy treetop.
• IUCN Red List: Least Concern