How to Use tanager in a Sentence

tanager

noun
  • Orioles and tanagers flash through city trees.
    — Anna Lello-Smith, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • The two discuss last rites and summer tanagers.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For male tanager birds, carotenoid feather pigments just aren't flashy enough.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Macaws passed over, tanagers flocked in the branches closest to us, but my gaze kept returning to my friend.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Finches, jays, and bushtits round out the usual clientele, and warblers and tanagers pop in for cameos.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The stream is home to tree frogs, while orioles, tanagers, crows, hawks and humming birds often fly overhead.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
  • In their endemic ranges, these wasps are eaten by skunks, squirrels, or bears, or snagged in flight by kingbirds and tanagers.
    — Hannah Hoag, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • The tanager thrives in mature hardwood forests, and those cannot simply pick up their roots and walk to cooler climates.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The mornings after a front’s passage can be alive with warblers, vireos and tanagers zipping through the trees and shrubs.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Many types of warblers, the western tanager, and the snow bunting are all considered medium-distance.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Three sandhill cranes in Ashfield and a summer tanager in New Salem.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
  • Local breeding birds such as wood thrushes, great crested flycatchers, red-eyed vireos and summer tanagers will be here in a few days.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Drizzly, overcast conditions bring the forests to life, with species like the gold-ringed tanager drawing enthusiasts from around the world.
    — Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • Macaws, toucans and tanagers are among Colombia's 1,900 avian species, more than any other country.
    — John Otis, NPR, 30 May 2026
  • Similarly, the song of the scarlet tanager that twitters through the third movement became less engaging when part of a flock.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Warblers, thrushes, tanagers, and orioles arrive in quick succession.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Dogwood fruits are an important food for migrating birds, especially fruit-loving migrants such as thrushes and tanagers.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Birders will wear out their binoculars scanning for the dozens of species found at the park including meadowlark, summer tanager, northern shoveler and wood duck.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Betuel suggests planting locally native plants that produce fruit and berries, which will also attract other thrushes, waxwings, and tanagers, among others.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Western tanagers escort rafters downstream — yellow flashes flittering from juniper to juniper.
    — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Be prepared for some competition; elderberries are a favorite of warblers, orioles, tanagers, and catbirds.
    — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Splitting off from a type of tanager called a grassquit, the Galápagos finches developed their own morphologies over the course of millions of years of separation.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
  • In less than an hour, Supplee spots yellow warblers, summer tanagers, yellow-breasted chats and a Bell's vireo — the four birds Audubon is gathering data on.
    — Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • Alongside wading birds like the roseate spoonbill and striated heron, visitors can also look forward to their fair share of passerines, with potential appearances from the blue-gray tanager and scrub blackbird.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Knowledgeable staff rush to dig out books on native fauna from the 2,500-volume library, and housekeepers drop their brooms to point out a sayaca tanager’s nest or an earpod tree.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Western tanagers are also a possibility, though their occurrence is quite rare here, with only a handful of winter records from Mecklenburg County.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The bright orange belly of a Baltimore oriole, the gleaming crimson feathers of a summer tanager and the royal blue plumage of an indigo bunting are naturally eye-catching.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • At the Manomet Bird Observatory, a Philadelphia vireo and a summer tanager were banded.
    — Grace Gilson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • And in a huge upset, the bottom-seeded American goldfinch, a common backyard visitor, knocked off the western tanager in the Yellow Regional.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Researchers saw everything from hummingbirds and flycatchers to antbirds and tanagers, birds that aren’t particularly closely related and who employ a variety of breeding and social strategies.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017

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