Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes >> Family Cardinalidae >> Genus Piranga
| Summer Tanager (Unique ID: 5776)
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Species: Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)
Location: Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, United States
Age: adult Plumage: --- Activity: foraging/eating
Sex: male Visibility: full body Quantity: single
Photographer: Bob Gress Date: June 19, 2012
Equipment: Canon EOS 7D and Canon 500mm f/4L IS Megapixels: 10.0
Notes: This bird was observed feeding this Painted Bunting. Interspecific feeding by males of several other species of cardinalid has been documented previously, but to our knowledge this is the first known instance of such behavior by a Summer Tanager.
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