Species: Pinicola enucleator
Pine Grosbeak
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Fringillidae
Genus
Pinicola
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
durbec des sapins
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Fringillidae - Pinicola
Ecology and Life History
Migration
true - true - true - Withdraws from northern portion of breeding range in winter. Irruptive winter migrant in east (National Geographic Society 1983).
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
true
Food Comments
Feeds on a wide variety of seeds; also eats fruits and insects. Forages in trees but also takes food from the ground.
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size is 2-6 (usually 4). Incubation, by female, lasts 13-14 days. Young leave nest about 20 days after hatching.
Ecology Comments
Gregarious. May gather in flocks of up to 100 birds. In Utah, a breeding territory covered 10.5 ha (French 1954).
Length
23
Weight
56
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-04
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-04
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Holarctic. BREEDS: in North America, from western Alaska east across northern Canada to Newfoundland and south to central California, Arizona, northern New Mexico, northern Alberta, central Manitoba, northern Great Lakes region, central Maine and Nova Scotia. WINTERS: in North America from western Alaska, southern Yukon, southern Mackenzie, and southern Canada south through breeding range.