A male rose-breasted grosbeak seizes attention with its gleaming, red triangle-shaped bib...
Rose-breasted grosbeak are a springtime migratory bird that drops into our yards and parks to eat on its northbound journey. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark. Restricted use.Come April, readers often tell me about the excitement of seeing a gloriously plumaged rose-breasted grosbeak in their yards.
A male rose-breasted grosbeak seizes attention with its gleaming, red triangle-shaped bib over a plush white breast. The bird looks like an oddly plumed cardinal, bulked up on steroids. It has a similar but stouter conical-shaped beak that’s pinkish white. Turns out that grosbeaks and cardinals are in the same family.
The gaudy male is now showoff, though. He can be as elusive as the female because his black back enables him to slip unnoticed within the shadows of tree foliage.Male rose-breasted grosbeaks migrate to northern breeding grounds before females.A breeding pair cooperates in building a roughhewn cup-shaped nest out of twigs, grasses, decayed leaves, and other materials.The birds are kin to black-headed grosbeaks that breed in mountainous areas of West Texas.
They move slowly through trees and around birdfeeders, and they are quite tolerant of people, at a reasonable distance. Their relatively passive behavior allows us lingering views and a chance to take photographs. But let’s be respectful toward the birds and not harass them.
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