Pik-a-tuck or picky-tucky
Solitary in upper canopies, this bee and wasp connoisseur will prefer pine and upland mixed forest, though it likes lower and more open forest than the Scarlet Tanager.
Males are strikingly beautiful with strawberry coloring, while females are mustard yellow. Their specific coloring is dependent upon their diet. These birds are in the cardinal family, yet they lack the conical bill. They sound somewhat similar to the American Robin.
Male Summer Tanager
High Island,TX 2015
The summer redbirds will sally insects similar to a flycatcher, and they pursue nearly any stinging insect. Their favorite trees are oak and pine, which attract many insects, so they will creep along on branches seeking same.
Flimsy cup nests are built upon horizon branches, distant from the trunk of the tree. Usually four eggs are incubated solely by the female. Beebirds are single brooded with an incubation period of about eleven or twelve days. The female broods, but both sexes feed the young.
Female Summer Tanager
Santa Cruz County, AZ
Both birds keep in contact with one another by uttering clicks, very much like the Northern Cardinal.
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