White wing bars are diagnostic traits that you can also use for identification. And unlike the bills of other grosbeaks, the beaks of pine grosbeaks are shorter and are strongly curved — almost ...

A very rare pine grosbeak, two white-winged crossbills, and a late prairie warbler were also seen there. Along nearby Race Point Road a Western tanager and 2 evening grosbeaks were also seen.

White-winged crossbills will also nest in late summer which often foretells of a larger winter irruption, but I have not encountered any this summer. There is fruit for Bohemian waxwings and pine ...

This makes it easy for them to move it under the scale of a conifer cone and extract the seed. White-winged crossbills, like redpolls, pine grosbeaks and Bohemian waxwings, are circumpolar in their ...

Here we observed more Evening Grosbeaks, a Red-breasted Nuthatch ... The highlights of the excursion included the sighting of both Red and White-winged Crossbills, the Common Redpoll (quite scarce ...

Finch feeding frenzies White-winged crossbill (Photo by Sean Feagan/NCC Staff ... However, there are troubling trends for some species. In particular, evening grosbeaks have shown marked declines.

About the same size as the evening grosbeak, this plump finch has a longer tail and a short, curved bill. Males are pinkish-red with a dark gray tail and wings, marked by two white wing bars. Females ...

PHOTO PROVIDED Evening grosbeaks sit on a bird feeder ... Small nomadic flocks of Red and White-winged Crossbills are moving south into the northeastern states. In fact, Red Crossbills have ...

Evening grosbeaks are a finch with a mind of their own ... Clara Dunne of Renews has attracted a very rare white-winged dove to her feeder. It visits with two of the more routine mourning doves. Clara ...

And there he was — a male grosbeak with the distinctive splash of red on his white chest. Later in the day my husband ... The day we spoke, she was caring for some squirrels, one crow with a broken ...

Red birds are found throughout the world in all types of habitats. They can be found in dry prairie lands or deep in pine forests. In some bird species, both males and females have brightly colored ...

White-winged crossbills tend to live farther north in Canada ... Other species that may migrate to our area from the far north are the pine grosbeak and evening grosbeak. During the winters of the ...