Search Redbird Redbird is the common name for all birds with red or mostly red plumage. In the United States, the name is often applied to the cardinal and occasionally to the scarlet tanager and summer tanager. See also Cardinal [bird]; Tanager. Summer tanager Tweet Pin It Telegram VK Random Posts Qinghai Province Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Parani, Daing Philadelphia 76ers Warwick, Earl of Pamphlet Indochina War Cassatt, Mary Durham