Today we meet the blue grosbeak. This little songbird is a sometimes resident, sometimes migrant whose coloration has direct effects on its ability to welcome baby blue grosbeaks into the world. The ...

Named for their oversize beaks, grosbeaks use this handy utensil to crack tough seeds from the scrubby field edges of the ...

What Does a Pine Grosbeak Look Like? Nicknamed “mopes” by Newfoundlanders for their subdued and approachable personalities, pine grosbeaks tend to freeze rather than fly when they feel threatened.

On May 23, 1707, Carl Linnaeus was born. The Swedish scientist would revolutionize the naming of organisms with his system of binomial nomenclature. In the Linnaean system, an organism is branded with ...

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.

The last time I wrote about rose-breasted grosbeaks was over 10 years ago. Back then, I was experiencing quite a bit of angst over my ability to identify their enchanting song, likened by many to a ...

Penn State researchers have identified a rare hybrid of two western Pennsylvania songbirds. The bird is a combination of the rose-breasted grosbeak and brightly-colored scarlet tanager. Stephen Gosser ...

Evening Grosbeaks are boldly colored birds that can lift your spirits and make your day brighter. On the many dark, cloudy and damp days of winter, a flock of Evening Grosbeaks that swoops down and ...

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, ...

Bird banders in Cook Township banded a one-in-a million bird — a rose-breasted grosbeak with half its body looking like a male and the other half, a female. The bird was banded on Sept. 24 at Carnegie ...

Noticeably bigger than a mountain bluebird but not quite as long as an American robin, it appeared larger than a robin because it is a robust bird with a large, thick beak used for cracking open hard ...