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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) is the largest diving duck in North America, where prairie potholes are its habitat. For the winter, they migrate south along the Mississippi and Pacific flyways to southern states and Mexico. The name valisneria refers to the scientific name of wild celery thought to be its favorite food, […]
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Gaviiformes (Loons) Family Gaviidae The loons were often considered to be the most ancient of the northern hemisphere bird families because of a similarity with the actually entirely unrelated extinct Cretaceous Order Hesperornithiforms. Now they are considered more modern and Anseriformes (waterfowl) and Galliformes (chicken-like) are the most
Home Subjects Covers About Contact Thraupidae is the family consisting of Neotropical Tanagers and is the second largest family of birds, with 383 species in 15 subfamilies. Many birds with tanager in their common name have been shown with modern molecular studies to be more closely related to cardinals and buntings, and moved to Cardinalidae.
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Family Cardinalidae (Cardinals, Buntings, Grosbeaks) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Red-capped Cardinal Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting Indigo Bunting Varied Bunting Yellow Grosbeak Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Flame-colored Tanager Hepatic Tanager Western tanager Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Dickcissel Facebook-f Chicago, IL EMAIL
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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Cardinalidae is family of American birds that includes birds with common names such as cardinals, buntings, grosbeaks and tanagers. Many tanagers were recently moved to this family from their previous assignment to Thraupidae (tanagers). Sexual dimorphism is usual. This gallery has species with relatively few shots here, while the
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Western Tanager is now in the family Cardinalidae, having been recently moved from Thraupidae. With a range in the western US from southern Alaska to Mexico, they are the northernmost of the tanagers. They breed in coniferous or mixed woods. Males are brightly colored while females are plainer.
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Summer Tanager, (Piranga rubra), like the Scarlet Tanager were formerly placed in the Tanager family (Thraupidae) but taxonomic revisions put them into the family Cardinalidae. They breed in the southern states and winter from Mexico to South America. Males are red, while females are greenish yellow. Immature males have
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Scarlet tanager, (Piranga olivacea), is a member of the Cardinalidae family breeding in large deciduous forests in most of eastern North America below Canada, and migrating to South America for the winter. The red of the male is replaced by greenish yellow in the females. *gallery moved, click button
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus is a member of the family Cardinalidae that breeds in open deciduous woods in most of eastern North America and winters in South America. The male has the rosy throat and is otherwise black and white, while the female has patterns on brown. Captive birds
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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Painted Bunting, Passerina ciris is one of the most colorful members of the family Cardinalidae. This applies to the breeding male, as in the first year, he looks like the green female. Often considered the most beautiful bird in North America, it has achieved the nickname non-pareil, meaning
