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Pine grosbeak: There is a widespread good to excellent ... trees and well-stocked feeders with black oil sunflower seeds. White-winged crossbill: With very poor cone crops reported from ...
Note the white wing bar and patches on black wing ... first-fall males is very similar to plumage of female black-headed grosbeak. Call: a sharp eek, squeakier than the black-headed’s.
Adults have a long forked black tail, black wings with white wing bars and a large bill. The legs and feet of pine grosbeaks are dark brown or black. The pine grosbeak has an extremely wide ...
The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart ... black wings with bold white wing bars, white tips to tertials, and white patch at the base of primaries. Center to lower belly ...
In such years, pine grosbeaks, red-breasted nuthatches, Bohemian waxwings, purple finches, red crossbills, white-winged crossbills, common redpolls, pine siskins and evening grosbeaks move to ...
Mixed in with these southbound siskins are purple finches, red-breasted nuthatches, white-winged and red crossbills and even a few evening grosbeaks. Every winter there are usually a few purple ...
On April 27, a male rose-breasted grosbeak appeared on a feeder just outside my office window. About the size of a cardinal, but more barrel chested, it was in fresh breeding plumage – black head and ...
pine grosbeaks, pine siskins, red and white-winged crossbills and purple finches. “There were finches way down in the southern U.S in inappropriate places they have never been reported before ...