The Pine Grosbeak is the largest finch in North America, the size of a robin, with a plump body and a strong, hooked bill for crushing large seeds and berry pits. Males are rosy-pink and gray; females are olive-gray and yellow. It is a slow, tame bird of boreal forests that irrupts southward into the northern US when berry and seed crops fail.
Habitat
Boreal coniferous forests and subalpine forests
Diet
Berries, seeds, and buds of conifers and mountain ash
How common
Uncommon
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