Pinicola enucleator ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: FRINGILLIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
© Christopher L. Wood
One of the larger members of its family, the Pine Grosbeak is a bird of the boreal forests, found across northern Eurasia and North America, and south into the mountains of western Canada and the United States. A large, unwary finch, it makes periodic winter irruptions into southern Canada and northern United States. It is the largest and rarest of the "winter finches."
Snowbird Season. Story and photographs in Living Bird magazine.