 Photo: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Recording of song by Lang Elliott You can also buy the CD in our store. |
ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (Pheucticus lucovicianus) 
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| 8 inches. Easy to identify as the breast and lining of wings are a bright rose color while rest of underparts and the rump are white. Breeding habitat is open brushy deciduous woods and aspen groves from northern and central Canada south to eastern Kansas, central New Jersey, and the mountains of Georgia where they arrive in April or May. They winter in southern Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador, but occasionally will frequent feeders in the northern United States. The male usually builds the fragile nest which seems too flimsy to serve its intended purpose and is usually composed wholly of twigs and fine rootlets. The usual location is the upright crotch of a small deciduous tree or bush, often in hedgerows along the open countryside. The diet consists of fruit seeds and insects (potato beetle, tent caterpillar, gypsy moth). |