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Sometimes, bare dead branches in woodlands 
invite them for a few minutes rest, and being 
silhouetted there against bright blue skies, nature 
provides a perfect setting for them, offering a striking 
picture of black, scarlet, yellow-greens, bright blue 
and sunshine—and for that matter, sometimes the 
same background sets off the beauties of others of 
the colorful bird world: the Blue Jay, Red-headed 
Woodpecker, Cardinal, Baltimore Oriole—who offer 
happy color competition. 
Though Scarlet Tanagers inhabit woodlands 
chiefly, they love small towns where trees, especially 
old tall ones, are plentiful. And they are fond of 
small orchards that stand adjacent to peoples’ homes. 
It almost seems that their singing and busy fluttering 
and even their coloring, gain degrees of beauty and 
grace and perfection by the presence of human friends 
whom they entertain and delight. Just one whistle- 
song can sometimes lighten up a dull day and bring 
brightness to a gray sky. It can easily be imagined 
that the music coming from an entire flock of these 
songsters can lift the soul very high. 
The Scarlet Tanager is one of four tanager 
species that range in the United States, and of about 
two hundred species in the world—who offer many 
vastly different colorings. This scarlet one is some- 
times called red tanager or simply redbird, but 
Scarlet Tanager is the most popular name and the 
correct one. Quite frequently, however, he bears 
a temporary name which depends upon the sentimen- 
tal choice of the people in the immediate area which 
ne finds suitable for his habitation. 
With their offerings of joy to the ear and eye, 
Scarlet Tanagers by nature, create a more beautiful 
world, a better world to live in. This seems suffi- 
‘ent reason for God’s creation of them. 
