This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the birdwatching site, goingbirding.co.uk, a lesser redpoll was spotted by C Lamonby on January 6 by the River Lugg near Middlemarsh in Leominster. The bird was said to be feeding in ...

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 ...

If you haven't noticed flocks of common redpolls this year, you've either spent too much time in the woods or holed-up by the wood stove with the curtains closed. These small, lively boreal finches ...

For birders struggling to figure out what kind of Redpoll they’re watching, new research from the University of Colorado Boulder says don’t worry—the different species are actually all one and the ...

New research could ruffle some feathers in the birding world. It finds that Redpolls, a bird found in the Arctic that will sometimes come to the Southern latitudes during the winter and can be hard to ...