Michael Warren: Summer Tanager

Artist: Michael Warren
1938 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1986
Image Size: 14 by 12 inches
Overall Size: 15.75 by 14 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

The legendary bird painter John James Audubon worked at the Louisiana Oakley Plantation House shown in this painting. No doubt he watched summer Tanagers and many other species from his room window or the front porch. This beautiful, elegant building was built in 1799, surrounded by rich Louisiana woodlands. Audubon stayed at the house in 1821. Apart from painting birds he gave drawing lessons the daughter of the house.

Summer Tanager Piranga rubra frequently raids beehives and paper wasp nests to obtain larvae and adults. Its range overlaps with Scarlet Tanager, the two species respond aggressively to each other's songs and countersongs. They coexist by partial habitat interspersed with aggression. They are solitary in winter, apparently holding exclusive feeding territories.

The bird in the painting is an adult male, as the female has a yellowish green back and wings and a yellow throat and belly.

This artwork was originally published on a Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Birds of America Collection. Each Cover featured a State Wildlife Conservation Stamp designed by Michael Warren, issued by the National Audubon Society and postmarked on the First Day of Issue of each stamp which was also the anniversary of statehood for each state.

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