Western tanager Piranga ludoviciana
The Western tanager are summer visitors to Washington State and are the only tanagers to regularly visit here.
Family Thraupidae: medium-sized birds with distinctive stout pointed bills. All are brightly colored, mostly fruit-eating, tropical birds
Generally solitary and stay within the foliage of trees, feeding on insects & fruit. Nests in conifer forests of our region, and migrates south to Central America for the winter.
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- Photo by Lisa Robinson
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- Photo by Dave Hillstad
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- Photo by Dave Hillstad
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- Upper wing bar yellow; black back Yellow rump
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- Males have red on head
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- Photo by Dave Hillstad
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- Females are drabber, greenish-yellow 2 Wing bars are pale and thin
