Native to many parts of North America, this bird can be found in both urban environments and secluded forests. Male cardinals have striking bright red bodies and feathered tufts on their heads.

Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America ... unmistakable—all bright red—and achieves its brightest ...

Summer male: black, including soft parts ... One of the most abundant birds in North America, the red-winged’s count was estimated at 190 million in the mid-1970s. Populations are stable.

Signs of the coming of spring are appearing everywhere. So far, I’ve seen robins, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, herring gulls, grackles, great-blue herons, geese, chipmunks, geese and others.