Summer tanager male

Description:

Adults have stout pointed bills and measure 17 cm in length and 29 g in weight. Adult males are rose red; females are orangish on the underparts and olive on top, with olive-brown wings and tail. As with all other birds, all red and orange colorations are acquired through their diet. The Summer Tanager has an American Robin-like song, similar enough that novices sometimes mistake this bird for that species.

Habitat:

Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas, especially with oaks, across the United States. These birds migrate to Central America and northern South America. This one was found in a wooded area in Monteverde, Costa Rica.