The Mexican yellow grosbeak (Pheucticus Chrysope plus) Is a medium sized bird. of the color of the bird is yellow, black, white, or gray. Its adaptation is in Mexico on the coast of Sonora. Female are similar to male but they are flame colored tanagers. Being about 21.4 to 24cm they weigh at about 62g. As a typical genus, it lays around 2 to 5 pale bluish to greenish eggs with heavy brown and gray specklings. Its head is “massive” and has a gray-black bill that is bigger than its proportion of its head. Some males have light-lemon underparts in most populations, “bright golden orange”.

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Habitat of the Pheucticus Chrysope plus is in mexico probably in trees. It lives in mostly in trees and forest, woodland, and edge, but generally not found in dense rain or cloud forest. Mexican yellow grosbeaks are seed eaters so they don’t really compete for their food. They do really well in their habitat, well there from Mexico and they live in trees like a lot of birds do. They’re are seven different types of grosbeaks. Black headed grosbeak, Blue grosbeak, Crimson collared grosbeak, Evening grosbeak, Pine grosbeak, Rose breasted grosbeak, and Yellow grosbeak.

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It’s hard for them to find food supplies when the local food is running thin. Thier diet consists of seeds and fruit depending on the time of year. Grosbeaks are found most often in conifer and deciduous forests in North America. This bird can evade its prey by staying in a tree or flying high in the sky. What was really interesting about this bird is that how many different colors of this bird and about what color eggs they laid.

Author: Jacob A

Published: 02/2014