In character, song and mannerism this is a replica of the Rosebreast with slight differences due to environment. They sometimes raise three broods in a season and are effective destroyers of scale, beetles and canker worms which infest western orchards.
Similar to Rosebreast Grosbeak.
Western United States from British Columbia east to southeastern Dakota, eastern Nebraska and Kansas, south into Mexico.
A tree, rarely 30 feet high, distributed on the lower slopes of California Mountains; descending to the Mohave Desert where it grows as a low shrub, sometimes forming extensive thickets.