Blue Grosbeak: Big-billed Bunting

Although the male Blue Grosbeak is colorful, this chunky, finch-like bird of brushy habitats is often first detected by voice. Once seen, a male Blue Grosbeak is distinctive, with deep-blue plumage set off by two rust-colored wingbars.
Like the Black-throated Blue Warbler, the genders of adult Blue Grosbeaks can be easily discerned thanks to very different plumages (a phenomenon scientists call sexual dimorphism). The female is a subdued mixture of tawny and rusty brown, sometimes with a few blue feathers mixed in. Both sexes have large, conical bills and blackish wings and tails. Unlike the similarly hued but smaller Indigo Bunting, this grosbeak habitually flicks and spreads its fairly long tail as it sidles through the undergrowth or perches on wires and fences.
Although this bird is called a "grosbeak" (literally, large bill), it isn't necessarily related to other birds with the same name. Where does the Blue Grosbeak fit in?
Find out at abcbirds.org/b...

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Just saw and heard two in NE Oklahoma last week. First ones of season. 👍

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Blue bird beautiful ... so rare and precious color to find in Europe. The other continents are more lucky