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Piranga ludoviciana
Non-breeding male. Summers for this area
Breeding males will have more red in the face and a deeper yellow. Females lack the red in the face and is grey on the back and the yellow is paler. The non-breeding male not as bright yellow and the red face is either is only tinted or absent. The black is duller. Back is a greenish-yellow.
The feed on insects and fruit.
This was spotted by a nectar garden in an open woodland area of mixed trees.
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Westerns males are yellow with red face. You maybe thinking of the other Tanagers.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Weste...
male is red?