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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But it's not really necessary to see the breast to know the rose-breasted grosbeak. The species is identifiable in other ways, and at first sight. The grosbeak is a heavy set bird, and it appears ...

The Rose-breasted Grosbeak derives its name from the male of the species who have a ruby-red triangular marking on a white chest and dark black wings with pink wing pits. Biologists have found a ...

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.

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 ...