Date: 4/6/26 6:05 pm From: Justyn Stahl via groups.io <justyn.stahl...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Wing Street Piranga sp.
Cool bird! While Western Tanager can show extra red based on diet
(particularly honeysuckle berries; see the link to the paper below by
Hudson and Pyle), I think this amount of red (well down the back and chest)
may be due to more than diet! A hybrid with Scarlet Tanager surely seems
like a likely explanation.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM Jeff Spaulding via groups.io <ornithomedic=
<yahoo.com...> wrote:
> I had a funky tanager at Wing Street this morning that I thought could
> have been a molting orange variant Scarlet, maybe a hybrid, and suggested a
> diet based abnormally.
>
> Anyway, here's Wonderwall... or eBird.
>
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S318102748 > --
> Jeff Spaulding
> San Diego, CA
>
>
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