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Summer tanager

Piranga rubra

Description:

Adult males are rose red; females are orangish on the underparts and olive on top, with olive-brown wings and tail. These birds are often out of sight, foraging high in trees, sometimes flying out to catch insects in flight. They mainly eat insects, especially bees and wasps, and berries.

Habitat:

Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas, especially with oaks, across the southern United States, extending as far north as Iowa. These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. This tanager is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe. Seen at Mason Farm Biological Preserve

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1 Comment

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Very nice spotting, Love that 2nd pic,

Maria dB
Spotted by
Maria dB

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Spotted on May 4, 2012
Submitted on May 6, 2012

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