Tanager - Bird Watching in the desert

Osoyoos area in South Central BC has the only desert region of Canada and that's where we found these beautiful yellow birds. When we got home from our trip we Googled 'Birds' and found out what kind they were. In all my years I never appreciated the variety of colorful song birds that can be seen around us, they were just 'birds.'

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[Stormybue]

Either a Western Tanager OR Magpie Tanager

[GENGOROOW]

 beautiful lovely!!

[verycoyman]

I can't believe Brock Lesnar retired from UFC.

[Grroocx]

For some of you folks thinking this is a finch, or thinking of your American Goldfinches: good try but no cookie. This is a male Western Tanager, and he belongs to a tropical family quite separate from finches. He's quite a bit bigger than a goldfinch, and look at his longer beak. We have only a few tanagers this far north, but as you go south toward the Equator, there are lots of them. The tanager family is currently "under reconstruction" as recent DNA tests indicate different relationships.

[tano95a]

the name of this bird ? please

[dlutke]

its a western finch. i put a thistle seeder up a 5 years ago and seen 4-6 of them.20 the next year. over fifty, then over 100, this last year i added seeders and cant count the birds. we've lived here for around 150 yrs. and no one has ever seen so many western finch that they can remember.Enderlin, south western north dakota.

[emcleod2192]

I had a western tanager at my feeder here in Port Moody,B.C. this summer! I too was amazed at the beautiful markings.....such a beauty!

[shahkarkhan69]

THUMBS UP

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BIRD HAND-FEEDING

GOOGLE SEARCH FOR HUORBOMA

[jaspadawangstaaa]

give birds a sense of privacy will ya? that's animal abuse!!

[astrokmb1]

Western tanager. Just saw one this weekend here in southern california