The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats ... Gets its name from a conspicuous bright rosy pink patch on the breast. Note the white wing bar and patches on black ...

Showy pink-red feathers on the male’s head ... Learn how to identify a rose-breasted grosbeak. Pine grosbeaks breed in evergreen forests across the boreal north and along the western mountains.

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.