An immature-plumaged blue grosbeak was seen among a flock of over 50 indigo buntings at Morrill’s Farm in Penacook on Aug. 17.These adult birds have enormous silver bills and beautiful blue ...

Females and immature males are plumed in gray. Photographers can capture the pine grosbeak simply by wandering around and trying to find the bird as it feeds on favorite foods. That's how I ...

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 ...

“An irruption is when we have species that migrate in large numbers out of their typical range due to some lack of resources,” explained Yeany, who runs the evening grosbeak research station ...

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.

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 ...