During the summer months, if you want to see a black rosy-finch, cinch up your hiking boots. The adventure will take you above tree-line and into the rocks, snowbanks and cliffs of the alpine ...

The common gray-crowned rosy finch is native to Western Canada, Alaska, the northwest U.S. and the Rockies. The black and the brown-capped rosy finch have more limited ranges, primarily the ...

Their findings suggest that the three recognized North American species of rosy-finches—the gray-crowned rosy-finch, the black rosy-finch and the brown ... Using blood and tissue samples from the ...

During the summer, rosy-finches frequent the edges of glaciers and snow banks, consuming refrigerated seeds and insects released by the melting snow. With such a smorgasbord, A black face and gray ...

After hearing about the flocks of migrating songbirds out on the wetlands, I ambled out there and found longspurs and buntings, but I missed seeing the gray-crowned rosy-finches. So, the next day ...

In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the evening grosbeak, the black rosy-finch, the house finch, and the American goldfinch. Outside of North America, there are ...

What: The gray-crowned, brown-capped and black rosy-finch (and yes, the birds’ common names properly takes a hyphen). Where: All three species winter in Colorado’s mountains and have been ...

Nest site of a Black Rosy-Finch in the Wind River Range, WY, Jun-02, ~12,000'. For scale, see the two people crossing the snowfield? Black Rosy-Finch nestling, Beartooth Plateau, WY, Aug-02. Climb to ...

Because rosy finches nest along the cliff edges of Kings Peak and the highest slopes of Powder Mountain, they are especially vulnerable to losing habitat — particularly black rosy finches ...