ScarletTanager

Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea

Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea

The Scarlet Tanager is a very bright and exotic neo-tropical migrant of the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, often foraging high in the leafy canopy of tall mature deciduous forests, especially oaks, making it less visible. Overall it does not seem to do well in fragmented forests and seems to require large tracts of forest to prevent cowbird parasitism.

It feeds mostly on insects; however it also feeds on berries, such as mulberry, elderberry and sumac

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