rose-breasted

In summer, scarlet and/or summer tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and ovenbirds are common.

Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental) Province (Bailey) 2009

The mixed mesophytic forest in coves supports a large variety of nesting birds, including the wood thrush, ovenbird, summer tanager, rose-breasted grosbeak, and all the other species already named.

Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest - Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009

In spring and fall we often get extended visits from rose-breasted grosbeaks, one of my favorite birds with their tuxedo plumage and red "bow tie".

A bright new visitor! Pat 2008

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On the Road Again 2008

In spring and fall we often get extended visits from rose-breasted grosbeaks, one of my favorite birds with their tuxedo plumage and red "bow tie".

Archive 2008-01-01 Pat 2008

Late in April, with other kinds a pair of scarlet tanagers and a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks visited the trees.

Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock

The rose-breasted grosbeak, while it eats a few green peas, is to be classed among the wholly beneficial birds, for it is the great natural destroyer of the Colorado potato beetle.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Bread stuffs, he would have to admit, were scarce in that cornless land: but hard exercise and fresh air sharpen the appetite and strengthen the digestion; and a keen woodsman will not heed bannocks when he can get beef, varied by such an exotic viand as kangaroo venison, and by such delicate and fantastical volatiles as harlequin pigeons and rose-breasted cockatoos.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

The cardinal, scarlet tanager, indigo bunting, and rose-breasted grosbeak form a quartet of which even a tropical land might well be proud, and the two latter species have, in addition to brilliant plumage, very pleasing songs.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

Thus the catbird and rose-breasted grosbeak weave.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919