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 Leno, Jay Volstead Act De Sitter, Willem Protozoan Rolls, Charles Stewart Chemical weapon Scorsese, Martin Godzilla Santa Anna, Antonio López de