Tag: tanagers

Birding

Bright and Brighter

February 2, 2022 by Paul Lewis No Comments

In my never-ending quest to expand my year list, Monday the 24th took me to the area of La Escalera/El Palmar/Arúmbaro. This is my...

Birds

Twitching the Summer Tanager in Northern California

August 25, 2016 by Larry 8 Comments

No one can accuse me of being a twitcher but when I checked my email Sunday morning and found that the local list serve...

Trips

Tanagers at the San Luis Adventure Park, Costa Rica

February 20, 2016 by Patrick O'Donnell 4 Comments

We watch birds for a number of reasons, but no matter how much a birder may enjoy staring at the primary extensions of small...

Birds

Tanagers of Hotel do Ype, Itatiaia.

October 11, 2014 by Redgannet 3 Comments

About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park. The endemic-rich Mata Atlantica,...

Birds

Do nine-primaried oscines represent 16 different families?

January 20, 2013 by David 11 Comments

Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group called “nine-primaried oscines,” so named...

Birding

Rare Tanagers, Antpittas and Bearded Helmetcrests

March 20, 2012 by James 6 Comments

Colombia is not only home to nearly 20% of all avian life on the planet but this birding mecca also accommodates an incredibly high...

Birds

Soul-Satisfying Scarlet

March 10, 2012 by Corey 24 Comments

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

Birds

It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

December 8, 2011 by David 4 Comments

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

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