How to Use tanager in a Sentence

tanager

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• Finches, jays, and bushtits round out the usual clientele, and warblers and tanagers pop in for cameos.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
• Macaws passed over, tanagers flocked in the branches closest to us, but my gaze kept returning to my friend.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• The stream is home to tree frogs, while orioles, tanagers, crows, hawks and humming birds often fly overhead.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
• Description: This tanager has a large dark bill, a dark-bordered ear-patch and striped back.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• The mornings after a front’s passage can be alive with warblers, vireos and tanagers zipping through the trees and shrubs.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
• Three sandhill cranes in Ashfield and a summer tanager in New Salem.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
• Birds such as tanagers, thrush, orioles, grosbeaks, vireos, wrens, and buntings.
  — cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• The tanager thrives in mature hardwood forests, and those cannot simply pick up their roots and walk to cooler climates.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• For male tanager birds, carotenoid feather pigments just aren't flashy enough.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
• The haunting, fluted song of a wood thrush echoes through the shady forest, woodpeckers drum and a scarlet tanager sings from the canopy of towering oaks, beach, maple and basswood trees.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• Similarly, the song of the scarlet tanager that twitters through the third movement became less engaging when part of a flock.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2017
• The wooded areas hold Eastern wood-pewees, summer tanagers and red-eyed vireos.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
• Local breeding birds such as wood thrushes, great crested flycatchers, red-eyed vireos and summer tanagers will be here in a few days.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
• In less than an hour, Supplee spots yellow warblers, summer tanagers, yellow-breasted chats and a Bell's vireo — the four birds Audubon is gathering data on.
  — Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 24 May 2018
• If a female tanager picks the male with the most brilliant colors, it’s supposed to mean he’s been eating lots of healthy food—an un-fakable sign that he’s got genes made for food foraging and breathtaking plumage to show for it.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2021
• The plumed paradise birds, the great and little egret, blue-throated and amethyst hummingbirds, the bright green Carolina parakeet, the Toco toucan, the lyre bird, the silver pheasant, the velvet bird, the tanager, the resplendent trogon ...
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• Splitting off from a type of tanager called a grassquit, the Galápagos finches developed their own morphologies over the course of millions of years of separation.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
• And in a huge upset, the bottom-seeded American goldfinch, a common backyard visitor, knocked off the western tanager in the Yellow Regional.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
• Ziegler observes butterflies and damselflies and bees that never descend to the ground, and dozens of species of birds: barbets, paradise tanagers, scarlet macaws that arrive in pairs, and fat, piping guans, which look like elegant turkeys.
  — National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
• At the Manomet Bird Observatory, a Philadelphia vireo and a summer tanager were banded.
  — Grace Gilson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• Dogwood fruits are an important food for migrating birds, especially fruit-loving migrants such as thrushes and tanagers.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 13 Oct. 2017
• The dawn chorus was productive, though, providing grasshopper sparrow, scarlet tanager, summer tanager and yellow-throated vireo, to name a few.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 14 May 2018
• Explore the outdoors Wildlife can be easily experienced in the Botanical Garden, home to an immense diversity of plants and animals like toucans, capuchin monkeys, capybaras, and tanagers.
  — National Geographic, 11 Mar. 2019
• For the study, researchers looked at 20 birds from ten different tanager species or subspecies, with one male and one female representing each species, housed in the ornithology collection of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2021
• Unusual species included a brown pelican, a Mississippi kite, a banded western wood-pewee, a black-throated gray warbler, a prothonotary warbler, and a summer tanager.
  — Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• Researchers saw everything from hummingbirds and flycatchers to antbirds and tanagers, birds that aren’t particularly closely related and who employ a variety of breeding and social strategies.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024