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 ...

and a yellow rose-breasted grosbeak. “It’s not surprising [that this would occur in other species],” Hill said. “All that is required is a mutation that disrupts the pathway from yellow to ...

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.

Like clockwork, a beautiful male black-headed grosbeak was eagerly feeding ... When flying, you can catch a flash of yellow under the wings. Typically, they place loosely constructed nests ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This grosbeak observed at the reserve was split right down the middle - pink on the right side, yellow on the left ... Gynandromorphs are not all that uncommon in the wild, though the colouration ...

A blue grosbeak was seen in Manchester on May 8 and ... Three blackpoll warblers were reported from Thornton on May 7.A yellow-billed cuckoo was seen in Hampton on May 7 and one was seen in ...