If you're a birder, you'll know what a life list is. It's basically a list of all the bird species one has observed and positively ID'd in one's lifetime. This blog is a record of my "critter" life list (mostly of birds), including photos I've taken over the years, some of the actual lifer if I was lucky enough to get the shot. Don't expect National Geographic quality stuff here, just the work of an amateur photog who loves to trudge out into nature.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana)

4/27/02 Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA
7/7/07 Trailhead at bridge from Leavitt campground to Leavitt trail, Sonora Pass (Hwy. 108), Eastern Sierra, Toiyabe National Forest, Mono County, CA

8/6/17 Female Western Tanager,
Lake Casitas Recreation Area, Ventura County, CA 

LIFE LIST NOTES:

NAME: Western Tanager

SPECIES: Piranga ludoviciana

 FAMILY: Thraupidae (Tanagers)

LIFE LIST DATE: 4/27/2002

LOCATION: Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, Los Angeles County, CA 

From Kaufman Focus Guide: Birds of North America:

HABITAT: In early summer, this tanager likes cool conifer forests of northwest and high mountains. During spring and fall migration, may appear in cities, farmland, even desert. 

IDENTIFYING MARKS: 7 1/4"; Adult male yellow and black with red face. Female and young dull yellow with gray back and wings, two wing bars. 

VOICE: Rising and falling whistles, robinlike, but hoarser. Call note a dry rising pro-di-dit?
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