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| | Scarlet Tanager |
 | | These tanagers are birds of the tree top canopy, where they forage for insects such as weevils, wood borers, leaf beetles, cicadas, scale insects, dragonflies, ants, termites caterpillars, wasps and bees. |
 | | Tanagers can be aged by the and shape of the primary coverts and color of body plumage (Pyle 1997). |
 | | In the tropics, tanagers are found from sea level to the upper limits of flowering plants, where they glean insects and spiders from vegetation, and consume many types of fruits (Stiles and Skutch 1989). |
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