Male Scarlet Tanager

Written By: Highlands Plateau Audubon Society | Issue: 2016/09 - September | Photograph By: Ed Boos, Photographer

This local summer resident is a tree-top dweller that feeds on insects and larvae in mature deciduous forests.  Its song is a rapid series of notes similar to the American Robin, but hoarser and slurred.  The call is chik-brr or chik chik.