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The scarlet tanager, a mid-sized passerine, is marginally the smallest of the four species of Piranga that breed north of the Mexican border. It can weigh from 23.5 to 38 g (0.83 to 1.34 oz), with an average of 25 g (0.88 oz) during breeding and an average of 35 g (1.2 oz) at the beginning of migration.
Sulphur-rumped tanager: Heterospingus rubrifrons (Lawrence, 1865) 29 Scarlet-browed tanager: Heterospingus xanthopygius (Sclater, PL, 1855) 30 Yellow-backed tanager: Hemithraupis flavicollis (Vieillot, 1818) 31 Guira tanager: Hemithraupis guira (Linnaeus, 1766) 32 Rufous-headed tanager: Hemithraupis ruficapilla (Vieillot, 1818) 33 Swallow tanager
Piranga is a genus of birds long placed in the tanager family, but now considered members of the family Cardinalidae.The genus name Piranga is from Tupi word tijepiranga, the name for an unknown small bird.
The bird is believed to be a scarlet tanager, which arrived in Shelf, near Halifax, after being blown off course by strong winds from a hurricane in North America. Normally, the bird makes two ...
Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness), lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of ...
Tanagers are small to medium-sized birds. The shortest-bodied species, the white-eared conebill, is 9 cm (4 in) long and weighs 6 g (0.2 oz), barely smaller than the short-billed honeycreeper.
This is a variation on the standard RGB or Hex combination that produces a truer Scarlet color on some monitors. It is slightly more orange than the standard Scarlet RGB value of 255, 36, 0, but does give a truer color on displays where the red dominates over the orange and would otherwise make the color appear more as a normal red rather than ...
The third movement is a variant of the traditional scherzo. It has the form A–B–A–B–A: the A section is a sprightly, somewhat quirky tune, full of off-beats and cross-rhythms. High in the first violin there appears the song of a bird the composer believed to be a scarlet tanager; however, the song was likely not that of the tanager. [26]