Western Tanager

The Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) breeds in North America and in winters inhabits from Mexico to Costa Rica. Its place is in canopy of deciduous forests, crowns of small trees in scrub and second growth, semi-open and hedgerows. Its size is of 16.5 cm (6 inches) in height and 28 g in weight.

In winter it is above olive-green, tinged with orange on face, feathers of back black with broad olive-green tips. Rump brighter, yellowish-olive, and wings and tail black. Below us greenish-yellow tinged with olive. In breeding its back is black, and its nape, rump, and underparts bright yellow. Rest of the head orange-red. Its alimentation is of insects and many fruits.