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Blue Grosbeak
| Color: |
Blue, Brown |
| Size: |
6.75" |
| Season: |
Summer |
| Description: |
Male is deep blue with chestnut wingbars. Female is brown with buffy wingbars and a hint of blue on the shoulder. Note the large bill. |
| Voice: |
Song is a husky, musical warble, like a deep-voiced House Finch.
Click here to listen |
| Habitat: |
Shrubby areas such as overgrown pastures and fields, aging clearcuts, powerline rights-of-way, streamsides, and forest edges. |
| Interesting Fact: |
The Blue Grosbeak is more common in the highlands of the Gulf Coastal Plain than the in lowlands of the Delta or Arkansas River Valley. |
| Scientific name: |
Passerina caerulea |
| Order: |
Passeriformes |
| Family: |
Cardinalidae |
Adult male Robert Herron |
Adult female Gene and Tina Blackwell |
Immature male Howard Eskin |
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