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6 Ιαν 2023 · The summer diet of scarlet tanagers consists primarily of wasps, bees, hornets and other flying insects which are plucked mid-air. Scanning for prey from a perch in the upper branches of tall trees is how scarlet tanagers spend much of their time during summer months.
The bill of the Scarlet tanager has a tooth-like structure that allows the bird to eat fruits and seeds. Scarlet tanagers are able to eat 600 tent caterpillars in just 15 minutes. When searching for insects, Scarlet tanagers may even walk vertically on tree trunks in order to probe the bark.
Scarlet tanagers also take snails, earthworms, and spiders. While summer tanagers are famous for this feeding method, when capturing bees, wasps, and hornets, scarlet tanagers also rake the prey against a branch to remove their stingers before consumption.
Scarlet Tanagers eat mainly insects along with some fruit and tender buds. Their invertebrate diet includes ants, sawflies, moths, butterflies, beetles, flies, cicadas, leafhoppers, spittlebugs, treehoppers, plant lice, scale insects, termites, grasshoppers, locusts, dragonflies, dobsonflies, snails, earthworms, and spiders.
During late summer and fall migration, Scarlet Tanagers often join mixed flocks of other songbirds to feed. If you can learn this bird’s distinctive chick-burr call note, it’s very useful for finding both males and females.
Breeds mostly in deciduous forest, mainly where oaks are common but also in maple, beech, and other trees; sometimes in mixed pine-oak woods, and occasionally in coniferous woods dominated by pine or hemlock. Winters in tropical rain forest in lowlands just east of the Andes.
Not only do scarlet tanagers eat quickly, but they look for food in a variety of places. They’re known to forage for food on the ground and in the tops of trees. They’ll even snatch some insects, like flies, straight out of the air!
