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Keeping Up with the Grosbeaks

NE DECEMBER WHILE HOME IN Pennsylvania for the holidays, ornithologist David Yeany II heard an Evening Grosbeak’s buzzy chirp. Hoping to enliven the yard with the bird’s cheerful chatter and striking hues, he and his dad spent an afternoon building a platform feeder from scrap wood. The next morning, nine oversized finches—nicknamed “grocery beaks”

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