As its name implies, rose-breasted grosbeaks have a massive beak for crushing seeds and insects and fruit pits. Their jaw muscles are so huge and powerful they give the bird a chubby face and cause it ...

"Hear a rose-breasted grosbeak. At first I thought it a tanager, but soon I perceived it more clear and instrumental ... It is not at all shy, and our richest singer ... the strain perfectly clear and ...

During the last 10 days of April, birds moved into and through Ohio. The two busiest arrival days in Hocking County, where I live, were April 24-25, when I observed 20 species for the first time this ...

A striking black-and-white bird with a red chest triangle is turning up at Cape May feeders. Learn how to spot spring's ...

Two readers, Barbara Kennedy and Arden Landis, wrote to me last week because they saw an unusual bird at their feeders. What they saw was a rose-breasted grosbeak, one of our beautiful returning ...

"Hear a rose-breasted grosbeak. At first I thought it a tananger, but soon I perceived it more clear and instrumental. ... It is not at all shy, and our richest singer ... the strain perfectly clear ...

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 male ...

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, ...

These are the days when readers tell me about the thrill of seeing a magical songbird seemingly dressed in a tuxedo with a starched white shirt and a gleaming red chevron on his chest. It’s the male ...

Elections don’t keep rose-breasted grosbeaks awake at night. (Photo: Jesse Davis) “Wow, that is one honking big sparrow,” my wife said, peering out our bedroom window and into the backyard. The bird ...

Biologists have found a rare Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a bird with both female and male plumage colours, in the United States’ Pennsylvania. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak gynandromorph was caught by ...