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 ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats ... paler below with extensive dark streaking. Yellow wing linings. Winter male: molts into winter plumage before migrating.

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to ... The bill is large and conical, typically bicolored; the wing linings are yellow in both sexes. Polytypic (the 2 North American ...

BATH TOWNSHIP, MI – A yellow northern cardinal is a rare thing and Michigan’s got one. Michiganders Arlene and John McDaniel have been backyard birders for nearly four decades and just before ...

It’s a sunny February afternoon in 1982 at camp. The hot water hisses in the tea kettle on the woodstove. Outside it is 15 ...

When hiking through subalpine forests in Colorado, the pine grosbeak is a treat on the treeline ... while the female sports a gray body with some greenish-yellow color on her head and rump.

Have you seen this bird? Some Pennsylvania researchers want to know. The Evening Grosbeak Working Group plans to capture, ...