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Piranga olivacea

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Scarlet Tanager - Photo 1

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Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) whose song has been compared to that of a “robin with a sore throat.”

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Migratory american songbird hepatic tanager (Piranga flava) male perched in a branch in tropical forest Venezuela

small hepatic tanager perched near the end of a branch

Like the scarlet tanager, the male of this species is red and the female is yellow.

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Scarlet Tanager - Photo 3

scarlet tanager with berry in its mouth

Male scarlet tanagers have very distinctive black wings and tails.

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Colorful red Scarlet Tanager bird perched on a tree branch during spring migration during the month of May in Canada

scarlet tanager high in a tree

Part of the scarlet tanager's scientific name means olive green.

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Scarlet Tanagerperched on a branch during spring migration.

Birds that look like cardinals: Scarlet Tanager

The scarlet tanager does not sport the northern cardinal's distinctive black face mask.

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