The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to ... Center to lower belly yellow. Adult winter: similar to adult male, but head less black, supercilium and crown strip cinnamon ...

The black-headed grosbeak is a spring and summer visitor ... where monarch butterflies and black-headed grosbeaks both spend the winter, the grosbeaks are one of the butterflies' few predators.

Winter male: molts into winter plumage before ... Plumage of females and first-fall males is very similar to plumage of female black-headed grosbeak. Call: a sharp eek, squeakier than the black ...

Curiously, despite their similar beaks, these grosbeak bird species aren’t all related. Pine grosbeaks are fancy finches, while the evening, rose-breasted, black-headed and blue grosbeaks are ...

We’re now down to the eighth most common species — the black-headed grosbeak — which occurred ... Our birds spend the winter in Mexico, both central Mexico and Baja, mingling with the ...

The male black-headed grosbeak has a black head (not too surprising ... Both the black-headed grosbeaks and black-backed orioles are the two primary avian predators of the over-winter populations of ...

Black-headed grosbeak has been recorded in North Carolina about 12 times previously, almost always at fall and winter feeders. It is the western counterpart of our rose-breasted grosbeak ...

The black-headed grosbeak is a Western bird that migrates here from its winter home in central and southern Mexico and southern Baja. Its summer range extends north to Southern Canada and east to ...

The black-headed grosbeak commonly summers in the Central Valley. A UC Davis study found bird diversity in the area was actually higher in the winter than in summer, highlighting the importance of ...