evening grosbeak

This evening grosbeak sits perched on a cherry tree, the branches of which spread along the wall facing 149th Street.

Salmonellosis most often affects goldfinches, evening grosbeaks and house finches.

When he was younger there would be “invasions” of evening grosbeaks that his father would take him to see in Upstate New York with 200 to 300 birds around one feeder.

Looking at the same passage in a later draft, I suggested that what he had called evening grosbeaks were probably American goldfinches.

Lucas’ feeders drew two kinds of chickadees, evening grosbeaks, Eurasian collared doves and redpolls.