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 ...

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.