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.

I always get this question — or a variation of it — from at least a few folks about this time of year: “A strikingly beautiful bird is coming to my feeder. It has a big red spot on its white breast, ...

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 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.