How to Use grosbeak in a Sentence

grosbeak

noun

• There’s also the question as to what sort of future the grosbeak might have.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2020
• Both blue grosbeaks and indigo buntings sang from the tops of some pines.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 6 June 2018
• Birds such as tanagers, thrush, orioles, grosbeaks, vireos, wrens, and buntings.
  — cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• The last time Powdermill saw a gynandromorph was in 2005, when the team found a grosbeak that looked very similar to this one.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
• Streams whoosh, swollen with winter rains, and birds — robins, sparrows, grosbeaks, woodpeckers and hawks — trill and chatter.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Despite the bird's rare bona fides, however, the grosbeak is perfectly healthy.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2020
• Several species are shifting north, including the blue grosbeak and fish crow.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Many birds – waxwings, grosbeaks, chickadees and robins – love fruit, which can be put out on elevated platform feeders.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
• Moments later the first black-headed grosbeak of the season landed at the feeder, scaring away the others as a flurry of feathers blew seeds into a cloud.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
• Pairs of red crossbills were reported in Harwich and Wellfleet, and an unprecedented June record of evening grosbeak was photographed at a feeder in Wellfleet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• In the other, a black grackle flies past a brightly colored arrangement of flowers, crossing paths with a cardinal and grosbeak.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• Other species confirmed for the first time in this edition of the atlas include Mississippi kite, blue grosbeak and canvasback.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2018
• The perch the blue grosbeak occupied a moment earlier was now taken by a singing scarlet tanager.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
• In Hadley, observers spotted a black-bellied plover, a mourning warbler, two worm-eating warblers, a blue grosbeak, and an orchard oriole.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• Crabapple trees, famed for their spring display of pink or white blooms, bear colorful autumn fruit that woodpeckers, pine grosbeaks, cardinals and others feast on.
  — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• Noteworthy sightings included a green heron in Belchertown, a blue grosbeak in Hadley, and a yellow-bellied flycatcher in Easthampton.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021

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