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 Cascadia subduction zone Stead, Erin E. Desmond, Viola Dodd, Christopher John Mellon, Andrew William Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Getty Museum, J. Paul Heiden, Eric Streeton, Sir Arthur