evening grosbeak
noun
: a North American grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) having conspicuous white wing patches with the male being chiefly yellowish with some black
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Birds sing and, using an app, Ted identifies the spotted towhee and evening grosbeak.
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Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 July 2024
This winter drive is located within the Atlantic Flyway, so keep an eye out for overwintering dark-eyed juncos, evening grosbeaks, and purple finches.
—Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
At Birch Hill Wildlife Management Area in Winchendon three acadian flycatchers and 28 red crossbills were counted, and five evening grosbeaks were present in Royalston.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
Worcester County: Four trumpeter swans in the vicinity of Riverdale Street in Northbridge, along with two sandhill cranes in Lancaster, 59 evening grosbeaks in Royalston, three black vultures in Webster, and a canvasback at gate 40 of the Wachusett Reservoir.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
This evening grosbeak sits perched on a cherry tree, the branches of which spread along the wall facing 149th Street.
—James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing common gallinule in Mashpee, a glaucous gull in Osterville, 2 Cory’s shearwaters and 2 laughing gulls in Barnstable, 6 red crossbills in Orleans, and an evening grosbeak and a short-eared owl in Eastham.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022
Irruptions also occur periodically with other northern bird species, including the red crossbill, common redpoll, hoary redpoll, evening grosbeak and pine siskin.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
Two glossy ibises in Eastham and another at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, two yellow-bellied flycatchersCQ in Truro, a Lincoln sparrow in Brewster, and an evening grosbeak in South Yarmouth.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
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Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 July 2024
This winter drive is located within the Atlantic Flyway, so keep an eye out for overwintering dark-eyed juncos, evening grosbeaks, and purple finches.
—Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
At Birch Hill Wildlife Management Area in Winchendon three acadian flycatchers and 28 red crossbills were counted, and five evening grosbeaks were present in Royalston.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
Worcester County: Four trumpeter swans in the vicinity of Riverdale Street in Northbridge, along with two sandhill cranes in Lancaster, 59 evening grosbeaks in Royalston, three black vultures in Webster, and a canvasback at gate 40 of the Wachusett Reservoir.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
This evening grosbeak sits perched on a cherry tree, the branches of which spread along the wall facing 149th Street.
—James F. Lee, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing common gallinule in Mashpee, a glaucous gull in Osterville, 2 Cory’s shearwaters and 2 laughing gulls in Barnstable, 6 red crossbills in Orleans, and an evening grosbeak and a short-eared owl in Eastham.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022
Irruptions also occur periodically with other northern bird species, including the red crossbill, common redpoll, hoary redpoll, evening grosbeak and pine siskin.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
Two glossy ibises in Eastham and another at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, two yellow-bellied flycatchersCQ in Truro, a Lincoln sparrow in Brewster, and an evening grosbeak in South Yarmouth.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
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