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Summer Tanager

Summer Tanager - 5/8/2016, Canfield Island © Steve Pinkerton

Summer Tanager - 5/8/2016, Canfield Island © Steve Pinkerton

Summer Tanager is a rare vistor to Lycoming County, with six known records. The species is on the Pennsylvania review list. Photos were taken of a Summer Tanager visiting a suet feeder in Nisbet on 5/18/2011. Two separate (plumage differences) Summer Tanagers were found a few days apart in May 2016 at Canfield Island and Mill St., which are only about a mile from each other. Each of those records were first-spring male birds. An adult male visited a feeder in Linden in May 2019, and a first-spring male was found at Mill St. shortly after. A female visited a feeder in Williamsport on 5/14/2020.

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Known Records

  • 5/14/2020 — Williamsport
  • 5/3/2019 — Mill St.
  • 5/1-5/2/2019 — Linden
  • 5/11/2016 — Mill St.
  • 5/8/2016 — Canfield Island
  • 5/18/2011 — Nisbet