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 ...

Learn about the beautiful, but uncommon, blue grosbeak, including the bird's range map, diet, nesting habits, song and more. The post Get to Know the Gorgeous Blue Grosbeak appeared first on Birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Evening grosbeaks are members of finch family and belong to the group known as the northern finches. Many of these birds nest to our north in the boreal forest or even the tundra.

The Rose-breasted grosbeak, pictured in Birmingham, Ala., is featured as part of Beautiful Birds of Alabama, an AL.com series highlighting some of the unique birds in the state.

Rose-breasted grosbeaks are migrating through Georgia now on their way to nesting grounds farther north — although a few may nest in the highest elevations of the state’s northeast mountains.

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the ...

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 grosbeaks are an interesting group of birds. Here in New England, you are most likely to see rose-breasted grosbeaks, but we also have pine grosbeaks, and evening grosbeaks (blue and black ...