How to Use grosbeak in a Sentence
grosbeak
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There’s also the question as to what sort of future the grosbeak might have.
—Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
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Both blue grosbeaks and indigo buntings sang from the tops of some pines.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
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Birds such as tanagers, thrush, orioles, grosbeaks, vireos, wrens, and buntings.
—cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
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The last time Powdermill saw a gynandromorph was in 2005, when the team found a grosbeak that looked very similar to this one.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
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Streams whoosh, swollen with winter rains, and birds — robins, sparrows, grosbeaks, woodpeckers and hawks — trill and chatter.
—Emily Anthes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
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Despite the bird's rare bona fides, however, the grosbeak is perfectly healthy.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
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Several species are shifting north, including the blue grosbeak and fish crow.
—Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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Many birds – waxwings, grosbeaks, chickadees and robins – love fruit, which can be put out on elevated platform feeders.
—oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
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Moments later the first black-headed grosbeak of the season landed at the feeder, scaring away the others as a flurry of feathers blew seeds into a cloud.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
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Pairs of red crossbills were reported in Harwich and Wellfleet, and an unprecedented June record of evening grosbeak was photographed at a feeder in Wellfleet.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
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In the other, a black grackle flies past a brightly colored arrangement of flowers, crossing paths with a cardinal and grosbeak.
—Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
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Other species confirmed for the first time in this edition of the atlas include Mississippi kite, blue grosbeak and canvasback.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2018
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The perch the blue grosbeak occupied a moment earlier was now taken by a singing scarlet tanager.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
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In Hadley, observers spotted a black-bellied plover, a mourning warbler, two worm-eating warblers, a blue grosbeak, and an orchard oriole.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
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Crabapple trees, famed for their spring display of pink or white blooms, bear colorful autumn fruit that woodpeckers, pine grosbeaks, cardinals and others feast on.
—Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
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Noteworthy sightings included a green heron in Belchertown, a blue grosbeak in Hadley, and a yellow-bellied flycatcher in Easthampton.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
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