#Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[avian-aves]

Various illustrations from 2021-2023. Pencil and watercolor.

[thomas--bombadil]

A young, male, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, still coming into his own and a bit splotchy.  

Soon his adult feathers will come in fully and he will be bolder, less mottled. 

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Rose-breasted Grosbeak Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[julianplum]

🌸 🌞 🪶 🕊 ✨ // singing up the sun

sunshine & songbird, gouache on hot press paper

prompt #2 for the bring on spring art challenge! in those early spring mornings it always sounds like the birds are trying to sing loud enough to wake up the sun

[uwmspeccoll]

A Red-Flourish Feathursday

Today we present a chromolithograph of a male Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), a male and female Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), and a male and female Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) from a painting by German naturalist and artist Anton Goering (1836-1905), reproduced in our 2-volume set of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling, and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder from 1893-1896.

The Tanager and Grosbeak are currently in the Cardinal family, while the Towhee is a sparrow. All three are fairly common in our neighborhood, but unfortunately, we rarely see them. However, we do hear them, or at least we think we hear them, since the song of the Tanager and Grosbeak are similar, and even worse, they both sound, to our ears, somewhat similar to the very common American Robin, which is an unrelated thrush:

Scarlet Tanager song

Rese-breasted Grosbeak song

American Robin song

Fortunately, the Towhee has a very distinctive call that we find easily recognizable:

Eastern Towhee song

Because German was prominently spoken in Milwaukee through the middle of the 20th century, these birds are also identified in Nehrling's book by their common German names:

Scarlet Tanager = Scharlachtangara

Rose-breasted Grosbeak = Rosenbrüstiger Kernbeisser

Eastern Towhee = Erdfink

View more posts from Nehrling’s Our Native Birds.

View more Feathursday posts.

[geopsych]

Rose-breasted grosbeak! I hear these guys a lot every spring but I rarely get a picture of one. Today I was lucky.

[butcherlarry]

Exercise Fic Recs 15

Oh god, I’ve made 15 of these.  Welp, better continue!

The Shadow demon series by I_go_by_Faith  (Batman is a literal cryptid, and is bffs with Superman)

Predation (Devastation) by Maximum_Quinn  (More bat shifter AU!)

Author’s Note by Trekkele  (Jason wrote fanfic and Bruce was subscriber.  Jason updates a fic after he died, and that’s how Bruce finds out he’s alive.)

bloodletting by TheResurrectionist  (starwars/superbat fusion)

borderline by TheResurrectionist (bat fam sudden hive mind) 

My Own Desert Places by MemoryDragon  (a reread for me.  Ace Bruce Wayne)

I’ve reached a milestone at the coffeeshop I go to every Sunday.  They know my name!  I’ve finally become a Regular™.  My latte and croissant:

It’s funny.  The cardinal is the state bird of my home state of Ohio, but I see SO MANY in Kansas.  I have an app that’s pretty good at identifying bird calls, and 9 times out of 10, it’s a cardinal.  

Along the trails, there are some nice spots for you to sit and take in the view.  I just thought this scene was pretty.

I have found a new favorite bird.  A blue-gray gnatcatcher!  The are so TINY and ADORABLE.  They also like to hop around and not stay still, lol.

The tree swallows were out again!

Another cardinal

Lol, I just thought this picture of a cardinal and red-bellied woodpecker was funny.

I ALSO SAW A NEW BIRD!!!  A rose-breasted grosbeak.

My little white-throated sparrow.

A brown-headed cow bird.

I also thought this was a neat picture of a red-bellied woodpecker climbing around on the feeder.

Some pretty flowers.

I don’t know what this flower is, but it is SO COOL.

I just liked the name of this one.

This guy was super cool too!

You know me, I gotta take at least one picture featuring running water.

A neat bridge

This flower was cool too!

I also had five finches at my feeders today!  Three were house finches and two were goldfinches.

A close up of the goldfinches.

[ladyswillmart]

A couple autumn migrating birds for you: A rose-breasted grosbeak and a wood thrush!

Sadly the latter species is in severe decline and is a Yellow Watch List bird. I have never seen one before so I guess this is a Lifer for me.

[browncountybirds]

Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[sudden-stops-kill]

rose-breasted grosbeak . male v female

[crypitd]

Early songbirds caroling, disturbing a sleeping owl on Sleepy Bird Sunday

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© Harlen Chen

[lunarrabbitsart]

been practicing more birds, and watching John Muir Laws' videos on bird sketches and bird art.

[thomas--bombadil]

A Rose-Breasted grosbeak is a handsome bird, indeed. 

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Rose-breasted Grosbeak also loves the jewelweed! Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 Long Pond

[rjzimmerman]

The hydrid. Photo by Stephen Gosser.

Left: A rose breasted grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus. Right: A scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, known for their beautiful songs. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK

Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:

A birder named Stephen Gosser recently took a stroll through the woods in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, when he heard what he thought was a scarlet tanager.

These colorful songbirds are famously difficult to spot, so Gosser followed the sound of the bird’s cheerful “chick-burr” call to try to get a good look at it.

When the bird finally came into view, Gosser could tell it wasn’t a scarlet tanager. The bird did not have the brilliant red body of a male tanager nor the delicate yellow plumage of a female. This bird had brown wings, a speckled chest, and a patch of red feathers on its throat not unlike that of a rose-breasted grosbeak.

“I was very confused and perplexed,” says Gosser, who saw the bird in July 2020 and has been birding for over a decade. He had never heard a “rose-breasted grosbeak sound anything like a scarlet tanager.”

Eager to find out the identity of the bird, Gosser reached out to Bob Mulvihill, an ornithologist at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. With Gosser’s help, Aviary staffers located the bird, collected a small sample of its blood from a vein on its wing for genetic testing, and then then released it back into the wild.

The results of that test, published in Ecology and Evolution in July, indicate that the mysterious bird Gosser found was a hybrid of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager. A hybrid of these two highly diverged species has never been seen before, and its discovery raises questions about how many other hybrids may be out there waiting to be discovered.

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

^image credit: Wikipedia

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

The Rose-Breasted Grosbeak is a member of the cardinal family, who breeds in North America and Canada. The maximum lifespan of a wild Rose-Breasted Grosbeak was 12 years and 11 months, however captive birds can live much longer, with ages of 24 years being recorded. The scientific name Pheucticus comes from old Greek for 'shy' or 'to flee'.