Curiously, despite their similar beaks, these grosbeak bird species aren’t all related ... But in 2020, a one-of-a-kind ...

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 ...

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to ... American subspecies are poorly differentiated; the coastal birds have shorter wings, smaller bills, and a tawnier supercilium ...

This seems to be the year of the single bird. Most of our winter birds travel in flocks, or at least in pairs. This winter, however, I have been seeing single birds of several species. The first ...

Shortly after that I saw the female grosbeak doing the ... allowing the host birds to raise their young. Our New-World cuckoos don’t practice this kind of reproductive behavior.