Usually high in dense conifer trees, this tanager can be hard to see on its breeding grounds. During migration through riparian areas and more open forest, it often moves in large but loose flocks. The nest is located high in a conifer out near the tip of a horizontal branch and made of twigs, moss and hair. Food is mainly insects and a few buds in the summer and fruits in the winter.
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A tree top species in broad-leafed and riparian forests, this tanager only occasionally descends to lower levels of the foliage. It feeds on insects, especially bees and wasps, and on fruit. The nest is cup-shaped, made of grass and moss, and placed high on a horizontal branch. Unlike the other North American tanagers that take on the female\'s colors during the winter, adult male Summer Tanagers stay bright red all year round.
Nesting in mountainous pine and oak woodlands, the Hepatic Tanager stays high in the tree crowns. Here it gleans and flies out to catch insects from the vegetation but in the later summer includes more fruits in its diet. The nest is made of loose grass and moss and placed high on a horizontal branch.
Occupying dense coniferous stands, pine-oak woodlands and closed riparian forests, this species feeds on insects in the mid to high levels of the trees where it often joins mixed species foraging flocks. Its nest is made of twigs and moss and placed in the fork of a high horizontal branch. In the northern part of its range it frequently hybridizes with the Western Tanager.