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  • noun Plural form of tanager.

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Examples

  • These were the things I drew after my year with Audubon: red tanagers eating berries on a branch, the great blue heron, the cormorant and quail.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • These were the things I drew after my year with Audubon: red tanagers eating berries on a branch, the great blue heron, the cormorant and quail.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • The boy led her across a compact courtyard filled with huge cacti and ferns where brightly-colored tanagers were fluttering and singing towards a darkened room with its door open.

    Bound for Mexico, a short story 2008

  • Thick-billed euphonias, tropical tanagers, use mimicry to enlist the help of other birds in protecting their nests.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • As they swished down the shallow river, the landscape seemed to come alive when Thoreau pointed out the way the scarlet tanagers lit up the scene, or a great horned owl perched on a log in a way that made it look just like a branch, or a heron stood on one impossibly thin leg in the middle of a sandbar waiting for fish.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • The boy led her across a compact courtyard filled with huge cacti and ferns where brightly-colored tanagers were fluttering and singing towards a darkened room with its door open.

    Bound for Mexico, a short story 2008

  • In Brazil, where it was introduced from India during Portuguese colonization, it has dispersed spontaneously in the wild in some places, as its fruits are eagerly sought by various native birds such as thrushes, tanagers and the Great Kiskadee.

    Archive 2009-06-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Usually the tanagers stay down in the creek woods--but I've seen several bird species in the yard that I've seen before only down in the woods: white-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, painted bunting, and now, the tanager.

    80Acres: new yard bird e_moon60 2009

  • In summer, scarlet and/or summer tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and ovenbirds are common.

    Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental) Province (Bailey) 2009

  • On the other hand, I've seen cedar waxwings, indigo buntings, scarlet tanagers, and yellow-crowned night herons without resort to technology.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Anne Johnson 2008

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