Showy pink-red feathers on the male’s head, chest and back, and bold black ... The Cornell Lab of Ornithology suggests using large sturdy tube, platform or hopper feeders, as pine grosbeaks ...

"I thought it was a black-headed grosbeak, but if it's tricoloured munia it's very rare." Per Cornell Lab's Birds of the World website, the species is also sometimes referred to as a chestnut ...

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains.

Males in most plumages unmistakable. 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-headed’s.