The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common ... and first-fall males is very similar to plumage of female black-headed grosbeak. Call: a sharp eek, squeakier than the black-headed’s.

Rose-breasted grosbeaks feed on seeds, meaning they’re likely to come to bird feeders. By the time they arrive in Alabama in the spring, they’ve flown over the Gulf, so the birds are pretty hungry, ...

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak ... First-winter male: like female, but underparts more cinnamon without streaking, and ...

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 ...

The female’s coloration is much drabber, mostly a streaky brown. Rose-breasted grosbeaks are migrating ... as the Cherokee people called this month’s full moon. Mercury, Venus and Saturn ...