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Our Scarlet Tanager, like several other birds in our flock at CWG, is Educational and collectible, our 5
The Scarlet Tanager will add a great deal to your collection...and its soft features will delight everyone in your 'clutch'. The scarlet tanager is a medium-sized American songbird. Until recently placed in the tanager family, it and other members of its genus are now classified as belonging to the cardinal family. The species' plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family, although the Piranga species lacks the thick conical bill (well suited to seed and insect eating) that many cardinals possess. These birds do best in the forest interior, where they are less exposed to predators and brood parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird. The cowbird lays its eggs in most any other passerine's nest and the young often out compete the young of the host bird and may cause failure and starvation. Some birds have evolved strategies to deal with cowbird parasitism, but the scarlet tanager, being a bird that evolved to breed in forest interior and not previously exposed to this, are helpless victims to brood parasitism.