One of the joys of being in a foreign country is that you never quite know what wildlife you might encounter. Walking down a quiet back street in Trondheim today and came across a group of pine grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator) making a racket in the trees at the side of the road. The scientific name roughly translates as “the bird that lives in the pine trees and shells the seeds” which is exactly what they were doing.
