The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It's free, fun, and easy-and it helps the birds."

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Pine Grosbeak

Contributors: Bruce Stahly

This large finch of the north photographed in Minnesota by Bruce Stahly, shows plumage characteristics of the northern (Taiga) population, intermediate between the darker, redder birds of the Pacific and the grayer birds of the interior west.

Pine Grosbeak
Size: 265.2 kB