Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorful, bold and sassy are good descriptors for this bird that could be said to resemble a huge goldfinch. In the east, the ...

The evening grosbeak is often a spoiler and always a thrill - a spoiler because it is always keenly anticipated but seldom shows up, and a thrill whenever it does appear. The grosbeak is another of ...

What Does a Blue Grosbeak Look Like? Any sighting of a blue grosbeak is a cause for celebration, because these beautiful birds just aren’t that common and they can be difficult to attract. Cinnamon to ...

A male evening grosbeak recently photographed by Laura Erickson in her yard in Duluth's Lakeside neighborhood. A once-common species nesting in the area, Erickson is asking Northlanders to keep an eye ...

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 ...

There are a lot of different aspects of birding that make the activity rewarding. These include getting a great look at some species, getting a great photo, finding a rare bird, seeing a “lifer,” or ...

An new study shows the number of evening grosbeaks using the campus as a migration stop-over site has gone down an average of 2.6% per year over the last four decades, emblematic of population ...

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. A hybrid produced by a ...

I was at the computer writing about birds when something a little different caught my eye outside at the seed feeder. There was a flash of color and a slightly larger bird than the usual flock of ...

Colorful, bold and sassy are good descriptors for this bird that could be said to resemble a huge goldfinch. In the east, the evening grosbeak breeds in Canada and often visits Pennsylvania and other ...

Pine grosbeaks eat not only a variety of seeds, but also buds and new needles from the tips of conifer branches. Like most bird species where the adults largely eat vegetable matter, they shift to ...