The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored ...

Named for their oversize beaks, grosbeaks use this handy utensil to crack tough seeds from the scrubby field edges of the Southeast to the boreal and montane forests of the North and West.

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.