David Welling / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) female perched on branch, South Padre Island, Texas, USA

Steve Gettle / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) male, Huron Meadows Metropark, Michigan

Steve Gettle / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) male calling, Huron Meadows Metropark, Michigan

Floris van Breugel / Male Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) singing and in breeding plumage, early spring in Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, New York.

Floris van Breugel / Male Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) in breeding plumage, early spring in Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, New York.

Murray Cooper / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) male, Colombia

Marie Read / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), male in breeding plumage perched amid beech leaves in spring, New York, USA

Marie Read / Scarlet Tanager (PIranga olivacea), male in breeding plumage perched amid spring foliage, New York, USA

Tom Vezo / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) male, Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Tom Vezo / Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) male, Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Konrad Wothe / Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) male, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica

Rolf Nussbaumer / Female Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) on Mesquite tree, South Padre Island, Texas, USA. May 2005