Spring migration is a wonderful time of the year. This year was no exception. Hummingbirds, warblers, grosbeaks, orioles and tanagers descended upon Santa Fe and surrounding communities. Western ...

It's May, and right on time, the Western tanagers are here. The colorful songbirds fly to Portland from Central America, and delighted residents from all over the city call the Audubon Society to ...

A few days ago I stood within a swirl of flashing color at Great Sand Dunes National Park. The Western Tanagers had returned. The Western Tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, is a likely candidate for the ...

If you mixed together the colors of a cardinal, a canary, and a crow, you might come up with a western tanager, a songbird that graces the cover of many bird guides, including the second Colorado ...

The tanagers are one of the most beautiful groups of birds in the world. When you head to Latin America, various species of tanagers are high on every birder’s wish list. A lot of them are both ...

A western tanager was seen and photographed at a private residence in Hollis on Jan. 31.The male, with a flame red head, with orange and yellow and coal-colored wings, is like looking at a ...

I was fly-fishing on the banks of a gorgeous little trout stream in Montana, listening to the bright warble of the colorful western tanager, when I spotted a wily cutthroat trout, holding at the edge ...

One of my favorite spring rituals is the Birdwatching Open at Cantigny Golf in Wheaton, held every year on World Migratory Bird Day. The 12th edition of the “the Open” took place May 8, our first ...

Broadly distributed west of the 104th meridian, the Western Tanager ranges farther north than any other tanager, breeding up to 60? N. At the northern limit of its distribution, this tanager may spend ...

My home pond has been rather quiet lately. Two or three unemployed male mallards loaf around companionably while their females are egg-sitting. Sometimes, just one male is there, a female (a ...