This Yellow Grosbeak, a bird which is rarely seen outside of Mexico, is shown in the area of Berryville in north Arkansas in this undated courtesy photo. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Michael Linz) ...

The concluding piece in my Dalhousie diary is the story of a lovely bird called the black and yellow grosbeak (Mycerobas Icterioides) that enthralled us during our ten-day visit. The black and ...

Grosbeaks are a group of birds with oversized cone-shaped beaks that are well designed for cracking open seeds. The evening grosbeak has such a beak so it was originally placed into this group ...

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.

Evening grosbeaks have already been spotted in two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties this fall. According to online reporting systems for birders, such as eBird, the bright yellow visitors ...

The song of the black-headed grosbeak is a real treat, sounding very robin-like. Both male and female are loud songsters; the female’s song is usually a simplified version of the male's.