Breeding male scarlet tanagers are brilliant red like adult male northern cardinals , but they have black wings and a black tail. What kind of bird looks like a cardinal? Cardinal look-alike birds are pyrrhuloxias, phainopeplas, vermilion flycatchers, scarlet tanagers, summer tanagers , and more. Surprisingly, a pyrrhuloxia could be confused with a female northern … Read more
If you catch any glimpses of red, then you can be fairly sure you’ve just seen a house finch The males of this species have red faces, breasts, and rumps. By contrast, House Sparrow males have gray heads , whitish cheeks, and a black bib under the chin. What is a small bird with a … Read more
The most common red-feathered birds are northern cardinals, house finches , vermilion flycatchers, red factor canaries, summer tanagers, pine grosbeaks, scarlet tanagers , scarlet ibises, two barred crossbills, crimson rosellas, and more. What bird is red but not a cardinal? Summer tanagers are all red birds, without the black wings and tail of the scarlet … Read more