French name : Cardinal à poitrine rose
                                    English name : Rose-breasted Grosbeak
                                    Latin name: Pheucticus ludovicianus
                                    Breadth:  32cm
                                    Length:  20cm
                                    Weight:  45g

Rather roundish bird the size of a robin with a big pale beak. The male is yellow, the top of it’s body is darker. Forehead and brow yellow. The wings and the tail are black , the wings also have large white patches. The female is of a dark shade of grey and beige  tints of yellow, especially at the back of the head. The male has more white spread out on the wings. Tail marked with white. Beak pale yellow. Group cries at birdfeeders. Undulated flight.

Recommendation for a bird feeder

HABITAT
Mixed deciduous forests and broad-leaved forests that border lakes, ponds, and marshes.

NESTING 
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak nests in broad-leaved trees or shrubs and occasionally in conifers between 1.8 to 7.9m from the ground. The nest is composed of twigs, grass, and plant stems and is decorated by smaller twigs, rootlets and animal hair. It is constructed by the female.

Environment Canada (nest) 
 
Eggs, appr. four (4) : 24 x 17 mm, oval. The shell is smooth and slightly glossy, pale blue to bluish-green and marked with reddish brown, dark brown or purple specks, generally wreathed or capped. Incubation is assured by both sexes towards the end of May and lasts between 12 and 14 days. Chicks are born altricial (naked, blind and immobile), leave the nest at 9 to 12 days from birth but depend on the adults for approximately 3 weeks. The young chicks are educated by the two (2) parents. There is one brood per year, occasionally two (2).

Royal Alberta Museum: Eggs of Alberta 
 

Food
Seed, berries, insects of all kinds.

Your charter of the preferred food of your birds

MIGRATION 
Southern United States, Mexico, and Central America.

Cornell Lab Ornithology 

Websites for additional information:

United States : Cornell Lab of Ornithology  
 

The Museum of Civilization : Audubon, Paint, Nature and Adventure 
 

Definition:  altricial
Consult the glossary of the Canadian Wildlife and Flora Service