Scarlet Tanager
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'''Diet:''' Mostly 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. | '''Diet:''' Mostly 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. | ||
| - | While foraging for | + | While foraging for insects they walk along branches high in the canopy or vertically on tree trunks to probe the bark, but rarely along the ground. Tanagers perch or hover with fast wingbeats to grab insects from leaves, bark, and flowers, and they catch flying insects like bees, wasps, and hornets from the air. They swallow small larvae whole, but they kill larger prey by pressing it into a branch. |
In the winter, they forage in mixed-species flocks with woodcreepers, flycatchers, barbets, and tropical tanagers. | In the winter, they forage in mixed-species flocks with woodcreepers, flycatchers, barbets, and tropical tanagers. | ||
| - | '''Found in Songbird Remix Woodland Jewels''' | + | '''Found in [http://hivewire3d.com/songbird-remix-woodland-jewels.html Songbird Remix Woodland Jewels]''' |
