Five birds share the name grosbeak and sport thick bills—but the similarities stop there. Look for these colorful fliers ...

Black and rose-breasted grosbeaks are closely related and occupy the same type of habitat. Where their ranges overlap, they do interbreed, and there are discussions of hybrids from North Dakota in ...

For the most part, rose-breasted grosbeaks breed up north. But somehow or other they have also discovered there’s suitable northern habitat in the higher elevations of the southern mountains ...

To get to know the rose-breasted grosbeak, you’ll have to visit the higher elevations where — from late April into May — they locate their nests at between 3,200 and 5,000 feet.

On April 27, a male rose-breasted grosbeak appeared on a feeder just outside my office window. About the size of a cardinal, but more barrel chested, it was in fresh breeding plumage — black head and ...

Rose-breasted grosbeaks migrating through the Tri-State evoke superlatives, like: “I have the most beautiful bird at my feeder. In 20 years I’ve never seen anything like it.” ...

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.

Male rose-breasted grosbeaks are accurately named for the red splash on their chests, while the females have subtler colors. The birds' lineages diverged around 10 million years ago.

Migratory rose-breasted grosbeaks are highly tolerant of suburban habitats and show up in local backyards, gardens, parks, woodlands and bird sanctuaries. They do not breed in Texas.

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 ...

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