The equally spectacular evening grosbeak is a rare irruptive winter ... can almost pass as a female red-winged blackbird. It is brown on top with a white eyebrow and heavily streaked white breast.

Warm brown wingbars and a huge bill are what set ... Learn how to identify an evening grosbeak. Blue grosbeaks may visit backyards anywhere within their range during migration.

Their nests are commonly parasitized by the brown-headed cowbird, possibly due to the singing as they construct the nest thus giving away the nest’s location. Evening grosbeaks like to eat wild ...

often with pink or reddish brown on the back and sides. Gray and gold with white wing markings and a big pale beak, the ...

Myriad finches can be seen in Teller County, including: Cassin’s and house finches, evening grosbeak ... White-breasted nuthatch- one on Dec. 24 - Brown creeper- two on Dec. 21 - Dark-eyed ...

It is published by Little, Brown and Company ... the rose-breasted grosbeak is in the cardinal family while the evening grosbeak is in the finch family. The famous Darwin’s finches are actually ...

I know that I had made a New Year’s resolution to focus more attention on plants this year, but Nature herself threw me a curveball when this gorgeous male evening grosbeak ...

Evening grosbeaks, a rather large member of the finch family, are more than likely leaving their breeding grounds to the north and flying south in search of food and habitat this time of the year.

Last February, several evening grosbeaks, which we rarely see here, visited our feeder. About the size of robins, the males were yellow with black and white wings, a black tail, and a bright yellow ...