Scientific name: Pheucticus chrysopeplus
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae

Also called: Mexican Yellow Grosbeak

The Yellow Grosbeak is a seed-eating bird that occurs on the Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala. It occurs mostly in trees in forest, woodland, and edge, but generally not dense rain or cloud forest.

Occasional vagrants have reached the United States, mostly in summer in Arizona, but it has also been reported from California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Iowa.

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