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 ...

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.

As was predicted earlier this year, evening grosbeaks are starting to appear in our area. They have a superficial resemblance to American goldfinches, but they are much larger. This one is either an ...

Evening Grosbeaks are boldly colored birds that can lift your spirits and make your day brighter. On the many dark, cloudy and damp days of winter, a flock of Evening Grosbeaks that swoops down and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Additional reports of evening grosbeaks from across the state are arriving ...

Well, these folks really nailed it this year, which was an outstanding year for spruce budworms (a type of caterpillar that feeds on spruce trees) and the many species of finches that feed on them.

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 ...

• Debra J., North Adams: “On Sunday, Oct. 25, in my back yard, I spotted a male Evening Grosbeak checking out my four feeders from a tall Elm tree. Eventually, he came down to feed [and] he stayed ...

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Winter 2020-21 brought the “largest irruption of evening grosbeaks in over 20 years, a massive movement out of the boreal forest,” according to David Yeany II, avian ecologist with the Western ...

There’s a chance, Chris, In the birding world, there’s always a chance of finding something remarkable…except seeing a bluebird in my yard. That is never going to happen. Many of us fondly remember a ...