Every April, readers excitedly tell me about a knockdown-gorgeous bird the size of a cardinal with a black back and a bright rosy bib on its white breast. It's usually a male rose-breasted grosbeak, ...

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, ...

One of our most beautiful summer birds is the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, or Pheucticus ludovicianus. The male has striking black and white plumage with a distinctive bib of vivid rose. This gives the ...

Week 3 of the baby Eastern Bluebirds, and the four siblings are growing like crazy! Did you notice the signature “angry face” of the nestling that looks directly at the camera? It can’t help but make ...

Come April, readers often tell me about the excitement of seeing a gloriously plumaged rose-breasted grosbeak in their yards. People are excited because the bird looks like it plopped down in Houston ...

As the glimmer of light comes through the now leafy trees, I awaken to the glorious sound of many birds: loud, soft, shrieky and melodic with a sweet peep-peep-peeper background chorus of tiny frogs.

The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania. A hybrid produced by a ...