Category
page 1Grosbeaks
Pine Grosbeak
species of bird
Pheucticus ludovicianus
species of bird
Japanese Grosbeak
species of bird
Pheucticus melanocephalus
species of bird
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
Mexican member of the Cardinalidae
Socotra golden-winged grosbeak
species of bird
Pheucticus
Pheucticus is a genus of grosbeaks containing six species.
Golden-winged grosbeak
genus of birds
Crithagra concolor
species of bird
Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak
species of bird
Somali Golden-winged Grosbeak
species of bird
grosbeak
right|thumb|This female evening grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) is considered to be a "typical" grosbeak.
Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks. Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea, these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds. Some are cardueline finches in the family Fringillidae, while others are cardinals in the family Cardinalidae; one is a member of the weaver family Ploceidae. The word "grosbeak", first applied in the late 1670s, is a p