Far less sociable than other birds of the genus, BLUE GROSBEAKS prefer the deeper woods and uninhabited parts of its range. They are quiet, slow-moving, rare and retiring. Their song is described as a "sweet warble resembling the Purple Finch's notes."
NEST: compact, well built of dried grass, leaves, plant fibres and a castoff snake skin, located in low bushes or in trees as high as thirty feet.
EGGS: 3 to 4; plain, pale bluish white.
Eastern United States from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky and southern Illinois, south to Gulf States.
Similar to Blue Grosbeak.
Western North America from northern California, southern Nevada, central Colorado and northeastern Nebraska south to central Texas.
A tree, sometimes 50 feet high, distributed from southeastern Pennsylvania to Indiana and Tennessee, and from the coast of Virginia to western Florida.