During some years in the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of evening grosbeaks visited Pennsylvania, often in flocks of 50 or more. But a massive decline has conservationists puzzled.

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 ...

With a large white beak, a dazzling crescent of yellow on the dark forehead and a large patch of white feathers on the wings, there is nothing in our area that looks quite like an evening grosbeak.

When I lived in eastern Pennsylvania, I saw evening grosbeaks almost every year. Two or three times each winter, a flock of 10 to 16 grosbeaks appeared at the feeders. They gorged on my seeds, emptied ...

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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.

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 ...

The Road to Recovery Project, to save the evening grosbeak, will be presented at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 26, in the United Methodist Church, located at 102 Clarence Church Road, South Otselic. (Photo ...

The Evening Grosbeak, the largest finch species of the northern boreal and montane conifer forests, has an intriguing history behind its population numbers and distribution across North America. The ...

One of my all-time favorite classes in college (at the University of New Hampshire) was “Introduction to Ornithology,” taught by Arthur Borror. We went birding, learned about the physiology of birds ...