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 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 ...

Last year, a pair of birdwatchers in Erie photographed ... since only the left ovary is functional in birds. The rose-breasted grosbeak found at the nature preserve is female on the left side ...

A colloquial name for the male rose-breasted grosbeak is the "cutthroat bird ... I have yet to find a nest, but assume we have a breeding pair nearby since they routinely visit our feeders.

"Hear a rose-breasted grosbeak. At first I thought it a tananger ... down on a careless worker's finger with the force of a pair of vise-pliers, bringing blood and yelps of pain.

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’ll know if you’ve seen this bird before. Every spring and fall, the rose-breasted grosbeak migrates through Alabama, resting at feeders and bird baths. You’ll recognize its large beak ...

"Hear a rose-breasted grosbeak. At first I thought it a tanager ... down on a careless worker's finger with the force of a pair of vise-grip pliers, bringing blood and yelps of pain.

Come April, readers often tell me about the excitement of seeing a gloriously plumaged rose-breasted grosbeak in their yards. People are excited because the bird looks like it plopped down in ...