Range and Habitat Blue grosbeaks are among the last species to return north and set up breeding territories. Although their nesting range covers most of the lower half of the country, spotting one ...

Grosbeaks fill a variety of habitat niches but most will visit feeders at least occasionally. “They are more special to see at feeders because you don’t see them quite as often,” Ashley says.

The feeder that works best for the Evening Grosbeaks is a platform feeder filled with black oil sunflower seeds. We know that it can be frustrating to work hard and spend the money to attract ...

In North America, these grosbeaks nest in open coniferous forests across most of Canada and in high-elevation forests of the Rockies. In winter, pine grosbeaks may stay in their breeding habitat or ...

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.

Evening grosbeaks are members of finch family and belong to the group known as the northern finches. Many of these birds nest to our north in the boreal forest or even the tundra.

At my current home I have only seen evening grosbeaks on two occasions. Once, on November 7, 2007, I saw a female (or juvenile) at my hanging feeder for about five minutes. Then, last week, I saw ...

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 ...

Rose-breasted grosbeaks are migrating through Georgia now on their way to nesting grounds farther north — although a few may nest in the highest elevations of the state’s northeast mountains.

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 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 ...