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Providing bird food during spring migration and into the breeding season offers the opportunity for colorful visitors of ...
Five birds share the name grosbeak and sport thick bills—but the similarities stop there. Look for these colorful fliers ...
Learn about the beautiful, but uncommon, blue grosbeak, including the bird's range map, diet, nesting habits, song and more. The post Get to Know the Gorgeous Blue Grosbeak appeared first on Birds ...
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 ...
Evening grosbeak and pine grosbeak are both members of the finch family. However, they are not that closely related. The closest relatives of the pine grosbeak are house finches and purple finches.
When hiking through subalpine forests in Colorado, the pine grosbeak is a treat on the treeline trail. I often encounter them when hiking in the mountains near timberline at around 11,000 feet.
The first Evening Grosbeak to be identified was collected, preserved, and documented by Henry Schoolcraft in April of 1823 near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
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.
The Rose-breasted grosbeak, pictured in Birmingham, Ala., is featured as part of Beautiful Birds of Alabama, an AL.com series highlighting some of the unique birds in the state.
I am sure that some of you may have looked at today’s photo and thought, “That’s not a plant.” I know that I had made a New Year’s resolution to focus more attention on plants this year ...
The male rose-breasted grosbeak (shown here) is a strikingly beautiful bird that may stop at feeders while migrating across Georgia. (Ken Thomas/Creative Commons) ...
A blue grosbeak perched in a field planted with native grasses. (Bernadette Rigley) Not long after I bought a dilapidated farm in the Virginia Piedmont, I was surprised to learn that it came with ...