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The golden grosbeak (Pheucticus chrysogaster), also known as golden-bellied grosbeak or southern yellow grosbeak, is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae. It is similar to, and has sometimes been considered conspecific with, the yellow grosbeak. The golden grosbeak is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Grosbeak / ˈ ɡ r oʊ s b iː k / is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks. Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea , these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds . [ 1 ]
Commonly known as golden-winged grosbeaks, they are attractive, chunky, medium-sized, robust-billed songbirds restricted to the southern Arabian and northern Somalian regions. These elusive birds are typically found between 1,060 and 2,800 metres ASL in forested wadis and areas of scrub.
The grosbeaks are an interesting group of birds. Here in New England, you are most likely to see rose-breasted grosbeaks, but we also have pine grosbeaks, and evening grosbeaks (blue and black ...
The Socotra golden-winged grosbeak or Socotra grosbeak (Rhynchostruthus socotranus) is a finch endemic to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Yemen. R. socotranus is by some authorities held to be the only species of the then-monotypic genus Rhynchostruthus, including all other golden-winged grosbeaks therein as subspecies.
Pheucticus is a genus of grosbeaks containing six species. [1] [2] The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the black-backed grosbeak. [4]
The Arabian golden-winged grosbeak or Arabian grosbeak (Rhynchostruthus percivali) is a finch found in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen. It is included as a subspecies in R. socotranus by some authorities, but in recent times the three golden-winged grosbeak populations are usually considered distinct species .
During site monitoring May 21, Young and Drury stopped at several marked points around Max Patch to play an audio lure, a 17-minute loop of recorded bird calls, specifically that of the golden ...