Evening grosbeaks are flashy, loud and beloved at feeders — but their population has declined 92% since 1970. Here's what to know during this winter's irruption.

Winter 2021-22 should not be an irruption year, which would send finch species like the evening grosbeak from the arboreal forests of northern Canada south as far as backyard feeders in Pennsylvania.

Every winter, there are some species of birds that, to me, are the birds of winter - birds that summer in the northern boreal forests or the high Arctic and then spend winters at our bird feeders. We ...

Duluth birder Laura Erickson was surprised in early August when a flock of evening grosbeaks showed up at her feeders and her box elder tree to feed. Evening grosbeaks have been scarce for several ...

Ahem, dear reader: The subject this week is bird breasts. To be sure, the breast is not the first part to examine when trying to identify a bird. The general impression of the bird is the first thing ...

The evening grosbeak is often a spoiler and always a thrill - a spoiler because it is always keenly anticipated but seldom shows up, and a thrill whenever it does appear. The grosbeak is another of ...

The last time I wrote about rose-breasted grosbeaks was over 10 years ago. Back then, I was experiencing quite a bit of angst over my ability to identify their enchanting song, likened by many to a ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Last February, several evening grosbeaks, which we rarely see here, visited our feeder. About the size of robins, the males were yellow with black and ...

We’ve had quite a few reports of evening grosbeaks this past week. Although not unusual this time of year, evening grosbeaks are like an old friend you bump into every now and then. You never know ...

Winter 2020-21 brought the “largest irruption of evening grosbeaks in over 20 years, a massive movement out of the boreal forest,” according to David Yeany II, avian ecologist with the Western ...