Blue Grosbeak
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae

[Photo] Blue Grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea. Male (upper), female (lower). Offset reproduction of watercolor. Source: "Birds of New York", (New York State Museum. Memoir 12), Albany: University of the State of New York. Plates by Fuertes later reproduced in Birds of America (1917) by Thomas Gilbert Pearson (1873-1943) et al. Date 1910-1914. Author: Elon Howard Eaton (1866-1935, author), Louis Agassiz Fuertes (artist, 1874-1927).

Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea, formerly Guiraca caerulea)*, is a medium-sized seed-eating bird in the same family as the Northern Cardinal, "tropical" or New World buntings, and "cardinal-grosbeaks" or New World grosbeaks.

The Blue Grosbeak is a migratory bird, with nesting grounds across most of the southern half of the United States, and much of northern Mexico.

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