The species spread eastward during the latter part of the 19th century. The first record of evening grosbeak in Maine was an incursion in the winter of 1889-1890. The species was not found again ...

The evening grosbeak’s stronghold is in western Canada and the western U.S. mountains. About a century ago, this species began moving eastward and, eventually, colonized boreal forest regions ...

who runs the evening grosbeak research station in Marienville, Forest County. The grosbeak irruption is part of a superflight – the third in nearly a quarter century – that also has brought ...

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 ...