Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).
Vagrant to France, Ireland, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Breeds southern Canada from extreme southern District of MacKenzie east to Great Slave L and north-eastern British Columbia, and central and northern Alberta, east to Ontario (southern from northern shore of L Superior), southern Quebec (south of c. 49º) and south-eastern Newfoundland, southern in USA to north-eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, north-eastern Nebraska, north-central Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and inland at higher altitudes to extreme northern Georgia. Migrates to region from north-eastern and western Mexico (from south-western Tamaulipas and Nayarit) south through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, rarely east to Guyana; also West Indies (mostly Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Is) and sparingly Bermuda.
Population
Estimated population is 4,600,000 (2010).
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) [XC178124]
by Paul Marvin from Wild River State Park, Chisago County, Minnesota, United States (call)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) [XC254323]
by Matt Wistrand from Algonquin Highlands, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
In the past, this species and Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) sometimes placed in a separate genus, Hedymeles. The two have been thought to form a superspecies, and frequently considered conspecific. They hybridize in overlap zone east of Rocky Mts.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet