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Five birds share the name grosbeak and sport thick bills—but the similarities stop there. Look for these colorful fliers ...
Blue Grosbeak Nests During the breeding season, they aren’t backyard birds—unless your backyard includes acres of the shrub-dotted field habitat this species seeks. Bubba, a self-described ...
Evening Grosbeaks are boldly colored birds that can lift your spirits and make your day brighter. On the many dark, cloudy and damp days of winter, a flock of Evening Grosbeaks that swoops down ...
To save the birds, I’m killing my farm I’m turning hayfields into meadows of wildflowers and native grasses for the critters who need these biomes to live.
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 grosbeak’s population has remained relatively stable despite concerns about habitat loss and climate change, according to the Audubon Society.
Although evening grosbeaks nest in Maine, we mainly see them in the winter as the population swells from northern birds pushed south.
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.
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 offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager, found in western Pennsylvania, is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." ...
A rose-breasted grosbeaks song is enchanting, likened by many to a robin’s but with operatic training.
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 ...