Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager could know his alias, "bee bird". Because the diet of bees, is known around the apiaries and bee parasites are persecuting. Mainly on insects, it was considered Tanager Bee and wasp expert, even if you eat a wide range of non-flying and flying insects such as crickets, grasshoppers, ants, beetles, dragonflies, larvae, caterpillars, insects and spiders.

Flycatchers are excellent, capable of capturing adult bees and wasps in flight and bring them back to a position where he fights against the branch until they die. It then deletes the branch to remove the missiles before eating. One of his favorite foods are the larvae and pupae of wasps. Tartan been harass or kill the adult wasps keep bestiaries. This leaves the hornet's nest abandoned by tearing the paper covering the larvae are easily torn from their homes.

In addition to the diet of bees and wasps, Tartan been eating fruits and berries, especially during the breeding season later, during the migration and everything in their wintering grounds. These include items such as blueberries, blackberries, blueberries, blackberries, poke-weed bananas, citrus and bananas.

Weight averaged 30 g and 17 cm long to reach, Summer Tanager is fairly large compared to the other tanagers. The bills are light brown, pointed, and rather stocky. Adult male has red plumage, always a light pink or red-orange throughout the year, and is the brightest of its parts. Unlike the male Scarlet Tanager, Tanager summer plumage paler, is an intense fiery red wings and tail and red than black.