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Rose-breasted grosbeaks are striking birds native to the eastern parts of North America. Occasionally one strays farther west; the fully breeding-plumage males were photographed at a feeder in Swall Meadows, a small mountain community on the east side of California's Sierra Nevada range, and in southeastern Arizona. The partly-molted male was at Big Morongo Reserve in the California desert. Rose-breasted grosbeaks are close relatives of the more westerly-distributed black-headed grosbeak, many of which were visiting the same feeder. |
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