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 ...

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, ...

Location, shape and building style are good ways to identify species, as is feather colour or song is to another birdwatcher, ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored ...

I’d never seen it before now. What is it?” There’s no doubt about the answer: The bird is a male rose-breasted grosbeak. Decked out in his spiffy black and white breeding plumage ...

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.