Five birds share the name grosbeak and sport thick bills—but the similarities stop there. Look for these colorful fliers ...

This is the case with the rose-breasted grosbeak, as is demonstrated in its name. ... The grosbeak is a heavy set bird, and it appears two-toned in color, black and white.

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.

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 ...

Providing bird food during spring migration and into the breeding season offers the opportunity for colorful visitors of ...

My first rose-breasted grosbeak this spring arrived at my home around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 25. I saw a glimpse of black and white with a splash of red that lifted my spirits instantly.

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 ...

There’s no doubt about the answer: The bird is a male rose-breasted grosbeak. Decked out in his spiffy black and white breeding plumage, he is indeed gorgeous.

Let’s hear it for the gaudy ones. Three cheers for birds, trees and flowers so brilliant you can’t turn your head. These are nature’s recruiters. With one brief appearance, they can rivet ...

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the ...

You might see them when in migration in the lower elevations at your bird feeders, but to get to know the rose-breasted grosbeak, you'll have to visit the higher elevations where — from late ...