Size: 8.25 inches
Overall Color: brown and buff
Occurrence: town
Diet: seeds, insects, fruit
Nest: saucer in shrubs or trees
Field Identification: heavy bill, dark buff breast, white and black stripes on head, ground feeding seed feeders, seen during migration
Season: spring

Black-headed grosbeak (male)
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Pheucticus
species: melanocephalus