Female Red breasted Grossbeak is a photograph by Debbie Portwood which was uploaded on September 20th, 2011.
Female Red breasted Grossbeak
Close view of a female Red Breasted Grossbeak as she perches on the small branch of an Elm tree. Wonderful for any wall in your home or office or... more
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Female Red breasted Grossbeak
Artist
Debbie Portwood
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Photograph - Photography
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Close view of a female Red Breasted Grossbeak as she perches on the small branch of an Elm tree. Wonderful for any wall in your home or office or perhaps a greeting card. Many more wonderful works can be found in my various galleries, from photographs and photoart to digital creations and abstracts. Thanks for browsing, commenting and most of all for any purchases. Debbie Portwood :D...................................(Red Breasted Grossbeak - Bursting with black, white, and rose-red, male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are like an exclam tion mark at your bird feeder or in your binoculars. Females and immatures are streaked brown and white with a bold face pattern and enormous bill. Look for these birds in forest edges and woodlands. Listen, too, for their distinctive voices. They sound like American Robins, but listen for an extra sweetness, as if the bird had operatic training; they also make a sharp chink like the squeak of a sneaker.................Size & Shape - Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are stocky, medium-sized songbirds with very large triangular bills. They are broad-chested, with a short neck and a medium-length, squared tail...................Color Pattern - Adult males are black-and-white birds with a brilliant red chevron extending from the black throat down the middle of the breast. Females and immatures are brown and heavily streaked, with a bold whitish stripe over the eye. Males flash pink-red under the wings; females flash yellowish. Both sexes show white patches in the wings and tail.................Behavior - These chunky birds use their stout bills to eat seeds, fruit, and insects. They are also frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they eat sunflower seeds with abandon. The sweet, rambling song of a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak is a familiar voice of eastern forests; their sharp “chink” calls are also very distinctive...................Habitat - Rose-breasted Grosbeaks breed in eastern forests; you can find them among both deciduous trees and conifers. They are most common in regenerating woodlands and often concentrate along forest edges and in parks. During migration, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks frequent fruiting trees to help fuel their flights to Central and South America.
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September 20th, 2011
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