First spotted by the owners of the Madera Canyon Kubo on 30 April, a male Flame-colored Tanager (Piranga bidentata) returned for a seventh consecutive year. Could this be the same individual? This year, the first sighting is almost one month later than it has arrived in previous years.
Photo courtesy of Gina Hallgren.
An unconfirmed rumor reports all Piranga tanagers, including the breeders to the ABA Area, Hepatic, Summer, Scarlet, and Western, will all be moved from the Tanager Family and placed in the Cardinalidae, Cardinals and Allies, with the publication of the next Supplement to the A.O.U. Check-list. Wherever their placement taxonomically, this group of birds will remain spectacular additions to the spring and summer aviafauna in their respective breding ranges.
I want to see it with my own eyes!
Do you have a video of it?
Posted by: Jen "Display homes" Ambers | May 05, 2009 at 11:32 PM
You can confirm it here, they've already passed it: http://www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2008_B_votes_web.php3
Posted by: daniel | May 09, 2009 at 04:10 PM