The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains.

Pine grosbeaks are fancy finches, while the evening, rose-breasted, black-headed and blue grosbeaks are all related to cardinals, buntings and tanagers. Ashley Peters, a conservation ...

Males in most plumages unmistakable. Plumage of females and first-fall males is very similar to plumage of female black-headed grosbeak. Call: a sharp eek, squeakier than the black-headed’s.

Like clockwork, a beautiful male black-headed grosbeak was eagerly feeding. It was April, and they were back. For the past few years, these summer visitors have arrived on schedule at our home ...

A black-headed grosbeak has never before been recorded in Mecklenburg County. Jeff Lemons Just a month or so after a very rare Bullock’s oriole was enjoyed by dozens of birders from North and ...

Depending on where you live, you could have either an evening grosbeak or a black-headed grosbeak. The male black-headed grosbeak has a black head (not too surprising) and has more of a burnt orange ...

I knew immediately when I saw the image it wasn't a Baltimore oriole -- the bill was wrong. A detail of the color pattern coincided. Nope. This was a black-headed grosbeak.

it was probably a black-headed grosbeak. Adult males sport showy black, white and burnt orange plumage in the spring while females remain relatively drab in shades of buff and brown. Grosbeaks are ...