My home pond has been rather quiet lately. Two or three unemployed male mallards loaf around companionably while their females are egg-sitting. Sometimes, just one male is there, a female (a ...

A few days ago I stood within a swirl of flashing color at Great Sand Dunes National Park. The Western Tanagers had returned. The Western Tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, is a likely candidate for the ...

Broadly distributed west of the 104th meridian, the Western Tanager ranges farther north than any other tanager, breeding up to 60? N. At the northern limit of its distribution, this tanager may spend ...

It's May, and right on time, the Western tanagers are here. The colorful songbirds fly to Portland from Central America, and delighted residents from all over the city call the Audubon Society to ...

Spring migration is a wonderful time of the year. This year was no exception. Hummingbirds, warblers, grosbeaks, orioles and tanagers descended upon Santa Fe and surrounding communities. Western ...

The handy thing about the songbird’s fall migration is that sometimes the birds come to you. You're not likely to find southbound shorebirds or geese in the typical Berkeley back yard. But we do get a ...

THE COVER PICTURE on my copy of “Peterson’s Field Guide To Western Birds” depicts a western tanager, a male in full breeding colors. Its body is bright yellow, the tail and wings are black with a ...

I was fly-fishing on the banks of a gorgeous little trout stream in Montana, listening to the bright warble of the colorful western tanager, when I spotted a wily cutthroat trout, holding at the edge ...

If you mixed together the colors of a cardinal, a canary, and a crow, you might come up with a western tanager, a songbird that graces the cover of many bird guides, including the second Colorado ...

Green-tailed towhees, white-crowned sparrows, western tanagers, black-headed grosbeaks, lazuli buntings, lesser goldfinches, Bullock’s and Scott’s orioles, and lots of broad-tailed and black-chinned ...