Curiously, despite their similar beaks, these grosbeak bird species aren’t all related. Pine grosbeaks are fancy finches, while the evening, rose-breasted, black-headed and blue grosbeaks are ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats ... Note the white wing bar and patches on black wing, and rose-red wing linings. Large, pinkish bill.

Juvenile males resemble females until their second year, though some immature males have tints of red or orange sprinkled among their body feathers. Learn how to identify a rose-breasted grosbeak.

The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains.