Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Pine Grosbeaks are making their first major irruption into the northeastern United States in several years, delighting a new generation of birders who are now seeing these large finches for the first time. Grosbeaks have been reported across much of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Sightings of two birds in northern Ohio offer hope that Pine Grosbeaks will continue to move southward into states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota, where they can occur during major irruption years.

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