Celebrating Grosbeaks

This week, we decided to try something different and create a nature journal column that readers could interact with more as a coloring page. I've noticed the winter birds around, especially xaydudiye, pine grosbeaks, eating the leftover highbush cranberries. They are so colorful in the winter. Males (top) are red and gray, while females (bottom) are mostly gray with an olive-yellow head, rump, and sometimes breast. In Ahtna: xaydudiye, pronounced "hie-do-dee-ya", pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator