Thursday 6 November 2014

Yellow Grosbeak x Black-headed Grosbeak

Yellow Grosbeak x Black-headed Grosbeak hybrid, Tucson Sonoran Desert Museum (Arizona, USA), December 2010 - copyright Steve Mlodinow
(photo ID: 1485)


This is a captive bird in a museum that specialises in species that are native to the Sonoran Desert.  I gather it mainly stocks Black-headed Grosbeaks but must have had at least one Yellow Grosbeak (a rare vagrant in Arizona) at one point.
 


Yellow Grosbeak x Black-headed Grosbeak hybrid, Tucson Sonoran Desert Museum (Arizona, USA), December 2010 - copyright Steve Mlodinow
(photo ID: 1485)



Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysopeplus

Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus

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