tanagers

About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park….

Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group called…

Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca also…

Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager today…

The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and “tree.”…

The first time I saw a Western Tanager, it was in New York. In Central Park, to be exact. It…

No one pays attention to female Scarlet Tanagers.  Decked out in muted shades of green and yellow the best that…

Most birdwatchers that visit Ecuador for the first time concentrate in the north-east and west slopes near the capital Quito….

Something has always puzzled me in my years working in the bird feeding industry: why don’t we offer more fresh…

Though the unpacking from my marvelous trip to Ecuador isn’t even close to done and I have about five million…