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 star species is the evening grosbeak, with its stunning color and large conical bill. The male is predominantly bright yellow; the female, a yellow-tinged gray. Both have bold white wing patches.

Male Grosbeak have reddish pits, while females have yellow. A rare bird has been found ... rush of seeing something so remarkable. They all are incredibly grateful to be part of such a noteworthy ...

This rose-breasted grosbeak has a pink breast spot and a pink “wing pit” and black feathers on its right wing — telltale shades of males. But on its left side, the songbird displays yellow ...

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 ...

and dazzling blue all over. Female indigo buntings are a brownish color also. Then a day later, Sanders sent another email. “Yippee!!!!” she wrote. “The first female blue grosbeak came to ...

Their colors are bold; males have bright yellow foreheads ... “It (the Evening Grosbeak) has the dubious honor of experiencing the steepest population decline (92% since 1970) of all landbirds ...

Researchers from the Powdermill Nature Reserve chanced upon a once-in-a-lifetime discovery—a rose-breasted grosbeak that is ... it has brown feathers and a yellow-coloured armpit, characteristic ...

Weirdly, not all of these birds belong to the same family. The evening and pine grosbeaks are finches, the same family as a goldfinch, whereas the rose-breasted grosbeak is in the cardinal family.