The hoary redpoll is bird of the week, not because any have appeared, but because some are anticipated. And because there is a plausible, if circuitous, connection between the redpoll and the ...

I saw the flock of birds, hand unloaded my shotgun and leaned it up against a tree, then grabbed my camera. My grouse hunt had been interrupted by a favorite winter bird: The common redpoll. The ...

Mar. 28—Common redpolls, one of few Alaska songbirds that endure the grueling northern winter, are familiar visitors to Southcentral. But this winter, an explosion of the little scarlet-capped finches ...

Common and hoary redpolls are 2 closely related finches of the boreal forest and Arctic tundra scrub. The common is the more widespread species of the 2, usually inhabiting subarctic forest during the ...

Watching the birds in the winter brings joy and life into a bleak and cold landscape. There is excitement in seeing a rare bird or a new bird in your yard. Who can resist dropping everything and ...

The wildlife activity is typically brisk each morning at a feeder in a pocket garden on our home's north side. But after 25 years of living here and maintaining a feeder at the spot, the common ...

New research from CU Boulder confirms that there are not, in fact, multiple species of Redpoll Finches, as previously thought For birders struggling to figure out what kind of Redpoll they’re watching ...

Its name, at least in Yakima, is a misnomer. The common redpoll is anything but common in these parts. It can be a routine, ho-hum sighting for any birder espying a common redpoll in Alaska, northern ...

Redpolls are among winter's treats. A description from "The Birds of North America" (Philadelphia, 2000) makes clear why this is so. In their monograph about common redpolls, Alan G. Knox and Peter ...

A RED-LISTED bird with declining numbers has been spotted near a river in Herefordshire. According to the birdwatching site, ...