Summer Tanager
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Summer Tanager
Piranga rubua
To learn more click here http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Summer_Tanager.html
The bird is bright red year round. Female is greenish-yellow.
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Map and range not to any scale.
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New photos as of 05/29/06
While sitting in the rose garden at Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum eating my lunch,
I just happened to look up and in a tree probably some 200 hundred feet I see this bright red bird.
I grabbed the ole D70s Nikon with a 400 mm lens and snapped away thinking I probably wont get any good images that far away.
What did not see was the female Summer Tanager in the tree also.
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Here's a bit better photo, but not much.
I no sooner snapped the shutter and off they flew.
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Now where did that female go anyway?
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Here she is but not for long.
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Off she goes to where no buddy knows.
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Below photos taken at an earlier date.
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I just wanted you to see that this bird is RED from toe to head.
While in Portal, AZ. and at the Cave Creek Ranch I had put out oranges to attract Orioles, guess what? The Summer Tanagers ran the Orioles off and ate the oranges then self.
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