Colorful, bold and sassy are good descriptors for this bird that could be said to resemble a huge goldfinch. In the east, the evening grosbeak breeds in Canada and often visits Pennsylvania and other ...

What Does a Blue Grosbeak Look Like? Any sighting of a blue grosbeak is a cause for celebration, because these beautiful birds just aren’t that common and they can be difficult to attract. Cinnamon to ...

I was at the computer writing about birds when something a little different caught my eye outside at the seed feeder. There was a flash of color and a slightly larger bird than the usual flock of ...

To some birders, spotting a rose-breasted grosbeak is a definite sign of spring. Rose-breasted grosbeaks show up east of the Rockies in spring. Males are dressed to the nines in black and white with a ...

Male ultramarine grosbeak, Cyanocompsa brissonii (formerly, Passerina brissonii, Cyanoloxia brissonii and Cyanocompsa cyanea; protonym, Fringilla brissonii), also known locally in Argentina as Azulón ...

Researchers with a team monitoring bird populations at Powdermill Nature Reserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, netted a surprise on September 24: a rose-breasted grosbeak with bizarre coloring. It had the ...

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 male ...

Biologists have found a rare Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a bird with both female and male plumage colours, in the United States’ Pennsylvania. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak gynandromorph was caught by ...

It had been a cold and blustery day of birding the Colonial Parkway and Jamestown Island. The kind of day that makes you wonder if spring will ever really come. Birds were not singing much and it was ...

When hiking through subalpine forests in Colorado, the pine grosbeak is a treat on the treeline trail. I often encounter them when hiking in the mountains near timberline at around 11,000 feet.