Head of the grosbeak. Antique engraved illustration of the grosbeak. Vintage illustration of the grosbeak. Old engraved

Head of the grosbeak. Antique engraved illustration of the grosbeak. Vintage illustration of the grosbeak. Old engraved picture of the bird. Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks. Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea, these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly related songbirds. Some are cardueline finches in the family Fringillidae, while others are cardinals in the family Cardinalidae one is a member of the weaver family Ploceidae. The word grosbeak , first applied in the late 1670s, is a partial translation of the French grosbec, where gros means large and bec means beak . The following is a list of grosbeak species, arranged in groups of closely related genera. These genera are more closely related to smaller-billed birds than to other grosbeaks. The single exception are the three genera of typical grosbeak finches , which form a group of closest living relatives and might thus be considered the true grosbeaks.

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