The best part is that these species are generally quite social, so you’ll rarely see just a single bird. Check out 15 outstanding pictures of rose-breasted grosbeaks. Blue grosbeak vs indigo ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored ...

One of these is the rose-breasted grosbeak. No other bird in our avifauna is more striking in appearance, distinctive in its singing or downright feisty to deal with. Adult males in breeding ...

Some of my posted photos drew enthusiastic comments ... Put all those elements together and the male rose-breasted grosbeak is not a bird that would be mistaken for any other.

Two readers, Barbara Kennedy and Arden Landis, wrote to me last week because they saw an unusual bird at their feeders. What they saw was a rose-breasted grosbeak, one of our beautiful returning ...

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet ... season After locating the bird, Gosser, who is also one of the study's authors, took photos and called for help.

You’ll know if you’ve seen this bird before. Every spring and fall, the rose-breasted grosbeak migrates through Alabama, resting at feeders and bird baths. You’ll recognize its large beak ...

The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania. A hybrid ...

Rose-breasted grosbeaks are not uncommon during fall migration in western Pennsylvania. But scientists at a research station were surprised to see a rare rose-breasted grosbeak at their bird ...

A colloquial name for the male rose-breasted grosbeak is the "cutthroat bird," but the violence of ... ideas for future column topics. Send your photos and observations to spike3116@gmail.com.

meaning that the bird they saw, exhibited male and female characteristics. Photos taken by Lindsay and some of the researchers show that the rose-breasted grosbeak has black feathers and a pink ...