Bird name:

Yellow Grosbeak

Pheucticus chrysopeplus

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Cardinals and Grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)

Code 4

YEGR

Code 6

PHECHR

ITIS

179143

Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Forests

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Casual

Egg Color:

Light blue or green with flecks of brown and gray

Number of Eggs:

2 - 5

Incubation Days:

11 - 12

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Sticks and grass with lining of finer materials.

Migration:

Nonmigratory

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General

Yellow Grosbeak: Large finch, yellow overall with black streaks on back. Bill is large and triangular with black upper mandible and gray lower mandible. Black wings have two white bars and black tail coverts have bold white tips.

Range and Habitat

Yellow Grosbeak: Native of western Mexico; sometimes visits southeastern Arizona during the summer, where it frequents riparian areas and canyons.

Breeding and Nesting

Yellow Grosbeak: Two to five gray-and-brown flecked, light green or blue eggs are laid in a nest made of sticks and grass, lined with finer materials, and built in a bush or tree at mid-level. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Yellow Grosbeak: Eats mainly seeds, but also insects, berries, and fruits. Forages low to high in trees and at times on the ground.

Readily Eats

Safflower, Apple Slices, Suet, Millet, Peanut Kernels, Fruit

Vocalization

Yellow Grosbeak: Song is a trilled, melodic "chee-er, weer-wee-ah", with back-and-forth robin-like phrases, similar to a Black-headed Grosbeak. Call is metallic nasal "ieek."

Similar Species

Yellow Grosbeak: Flame-colored Tanager is smaller with slender, pointed bill, and yellow-green underparts.

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Lower mandible

The lower part of the bill.

Tail coverts

The short tail feathers covering the base of the long tail feathers.

Upper mandible

The upper part of the bill.

Riparian

Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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