pine grosbeak

noun

variants or less commonly pine bullfinch

: a large grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) of coniferous forests of northern America, Europe, and Asia that is chiefly gray with the crown, rump, and breast strongly suffused with rosy red in the adult male and yellow in the female

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