Black-headed Grosbeak Images

Black-headed Grosbeak Images, Facts and Information:

Pheucticus melanocephalus

• Black-headed Grosbeaks are large, stocky finches with large, conical grayish bills, dark eyes and legs. Male Black-headed Grosbeaks during the breeding season are rich orange-cinnamon with a black head and black-and-white wings and tails. Females and immature males are brown above with warm orange or buff on the breast, and some have streaks on the sides of the breast. Male Black-headed Grosbeaks take two years to get their adult breeding plumage, first year males can vary from looking like females or males.
• Black-headed Grosbeaks are migratory. They breed from southwestern Canada east to North Dakota and Nebraska and south to the mountains of Mexico. Black-headed Grosbeaks spend winter in Mexico.
• Black-headed Grosbeaks prefer habitats that are open, near deciduous woodlands and lakeshores, creeks, rivers, desert thickets, and mountain forests.
• Black-headed Grosbeaks eat seeds, berries, fruits and insects.
• Black-headed Grosbeaks lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of grosbeaks is known as a “gross” of grosbeaks.
• Black-headed Grosbeaks can live to be more than 11 years of age.

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