Piranga Ludoviciana by Sharon Beals
Contemporary
United States
Western Tanager
Piranga ludoviciana
Museum Vertebrate Zoology
Collected in Washoe County: Nevada in 1934
Museum Vertebrate Zoology
The female lays a foundation of twigs placed along foliage of a bough. Then she adds a circular framework of smaller twigs, bark strips, and sturdy plant material, vigorously shaping it with her beak and body, and then lines it with lichens, mosses, pine needles, grasses, weeds, rootlets, feathers, or horse or cow hair if it can be found. She incubates three to five spotted blue, bluish-green or sometimes white eggs for about 13 days.
The nests were photographed in four science collections: The California Academy of Sciences, The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, and the American Museum of Natural History.
Subject Details:
Western Tanager
Piranga ludoviciana
Washoe Valley, 9 miles No. of Carson City
08 Jun 1934
North America, United States, Washoe County
MVZ 4984
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
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