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Rose-breasted Grosbeak


Rose-breasted Grosbeak
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Copyright: Luis Vargas (Chiza) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 34 W: 0 N: 197] (964)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-08-16
Categories: Birds
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/200 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-14 20:37
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
From Wikipedia

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Passerida
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Pheucticus
Species: P. ludovicianus

Binomial name
Pheucticus ludovicianus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Synonyms

Zamelodia ludoviciana

The Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus, is a large seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae.

The adult is 19 cm (7.5 in) long and weighs 47 g (1.7 oz). It has dark upperparts, white underparts and a large pale bill. The adult male has a black head, wings and upperparts and a bright rose-red patch on its breast; the wings have white patches and rose red linings. The adult female has dark grey upperparts, a white stripe over the eye, streaked underparts and yellowish wing linings.

The song resembles a more refined version of the American Robin's. The call is a sharp pink.

The Rose-breasted Grosbeak's breeding habitat is open deciduous woods across most of Canada and the eastern United States. Northern birds migrate to southern Mexico south through Central America to Peru and Venezuela in winter. The species occurs as very rare vagrants to western Europe.

Misguided fire prevention policies have created habitat on the Great Plains, thereby allowing the Rose-breasted Grosbeak to extend its range westwards. Increased hybridization with the Black-headed Grosbeak subspecies Pheucticus melanocephalus papago[1] has been recorded as a consequence.[2]

The Rose-breasted Grosbeak forages in shrubs or trees for insects, seeds and berries, also catching insects in flight. In the winter quarters, they can be attracted into parks, gardens, and possibly even to bird feeders by fruit like Trophis racemosa.[3] It builds a twig nest in a tree or large shrub.

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Great and interesting image of this bird.Good picture.Regards.Alin.

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