Description: During the month of May, well after the robins have started their families, the scarlet tanager and the rose-breasted grosbeak arrive in the oak woods that surround my Connecticut garden. The tanager sings its abrupt phrases like a robin with a sore throat, but the grosbeak gives a more fluid presentation - like a robin that has taken music lessons. The male rose-breast, midway between a sparrow and a robin in size, is a stunning bird whose beauty is not marred by its oversized beak. The female is quite plain and sparrowlike, resembling a large female purple finch except for the flash of yellow in its wing-pits. Although I have been unable to tempt tanagers into the garden, I found that if I sliced an orange in half and impaled it on a twig the grosbeaks would come. In fact, the blossoms in this composition were from the same flowering crab where I put out the oranges. In the western states and in southwestern Canada the rose-breast is replaced by the black-headed grosbeak. - Roger Tory Peterson Brand-New in Mint Condition Hand-Signed by Roger Tory Peterson Paper Lithograph Edition Size: 20 P/P Image Size: 17 X 14 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ArtUSA is One of the World's Largest Fine Art Dealers Authorized Dealer for all Major Art Publishers All Works are Guaranteed Authentic New Releases & Rare Sold-Out Editions Contact us with any questions -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Price: 236 USD
Location: Painesville, Ohio
End Time: 2024-11-23T15:51:57.000Z
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Type: Paper Lithograph
Subject: Birds, Grosbeaks
Theme: Birds, Grosbeaks
Features: Signed
Size: 17 X 14
