Tanagers

Summer Tanagers and Painted Buntings were two of my nemesis birds.

Archive 2009-05-01 Dafydd 2009

Summer Tanagers and Painted Buntings were two of my nemesis birds.

A birding trip Dafydd 2009

Among the smaller birds, I noticed bright Tanagers, and also a species resembling the Canary.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

Dickerman saw Western Tanagers in the Sierra del Pino on May 12, 1954, and 16 mi.

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

The Tanagers are insect destroyers, feeding for the most part on such forms as attack the foliage of trees.

A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

"These Tanagers aren't very plenty about here -- are they, Doctor?" asked

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Robin, and Wood Thrush to the Tanagers, belong to several different families and are chiefly insect-eaters, taking various fruits and berries in season, it is true, but making insects their regular diet.

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Chatterers, Manakins, Tanagers, and Birds of Paradise, as well as our own Blackbird, have mates so dull and inconspicuous that they can hardly be recognised as belonging to the same species.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

When, on the other hand (as in the Tanagers and Flycatchers), the habit of the whole group was to build open cup-shaped nests in more or less exposed situations, the production of colour and marking in the female, by whatever cause, was continually checked by its rendering her too conspicuous, while in the male it had free play, and developed in him the most gorgeous hues.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Tanagers, both Summer and Scarlet Tanagers are more interested in catching bees and snagging ripe mulberries this time of year, but they will stop to get a quick bite of protein at your feeder.

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