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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I’d never seen it before now. What is it?” 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 ...

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

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.