Evening grosbeaks ... white patch on their wings. The male grosbeak has an ivory bill, a dark head and a bright yellow stripe over the eyes. Females and immature birds are gray and subtly marked ...

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 species is far better-known as the evening grosbeak. But kernel breaker is apropos, and a glance at an evening grosbeak’s massive bill reveals why. The “evening” descriptor is a bit ...

I was assigned an evening grosbeak. I had never seen one of these before. Evening grosbeaks are a northern species that weren’t even found on the East Coast until the early 1900s, but now ...

Grosbeaks are most easily identified by the males. Black-headed are black and orange, evening grosbeak are yellow, black and white in color, and rose-breasted are striking black, white and red.