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The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. ... and rose-red wing linings. Large, pinkish bill.
Rose-breasted grosbeaks feed on seeds, meaning they’re likely to come to bird feeders. By the time they arrive in Alabama in the spring, they’ve flown over the Gulf, so the birds are pretty ...
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 ...
Every spring and fall, the rose-breasted grosbeak migrates through Alabama, resting at feeders and bird baths. You’ll recognize its large beak, black and white feathers and the splash of red ...
A colloquial name for the male rose-breasted grosbeak is the "cutthroat bird," but the violence of that imagery is furthest from the truth. That red splotch on the breast is primarily used to ...
A male rose-breasted grosbeak seizes attention with its gleaming, red triangle-shaped bib over a plush white breast. The bird looks like an oddly plumed cardinal, bulked up on steroids.
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 scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million years ago—was recently found in Pennsylvania.
But when he laid eyes on the singer, he saw instead a dark-colored head, black-and-white body, with a splash of red on its chest. "Well, that sort of looks like a first-year male rose-breasted ...
A rose-breasted grosbeaks song is enchanting, likened by many to a robin’s but with operatic training. ... That red splotch on the breast is primarily used to attract the ladies.