Louisiana tanager

noun

1. western tanager.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Louisiana tanager¹

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

Example Sentences

I saw a Louisiana tanager; the pinyon jays were everywhere; ravens, true birds of the wilderness, croaked hoarsely.

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A Louisiana tanager in his coat of many colors stopped one day, and another time, when looking up for dull green vireos, my eye was startled by a flaming golden oriole.

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On looking it up in Ridgway the stranger proved to be the Louisiana tanager, a high mountain bird.

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Bullock's oriole and the Louisiana tanager are here also, with many warblers and other little mountain troubadours, most of them now busy about their nests.

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In a Pasture 207   Louisiana tanager Piranga ludoviciana.

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