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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Common" may be defined as communal and cooperating or prevalent, well-known and everyday. But there are also not so pleasant connotations: mediocre, inferior, lowborn or vulgar. None of the above ...

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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 ...