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 ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS – The bird columnist must make a choice between species that are regular here but ordinarily not abundant, and species that are often abundant but are absent this year. The choice goes to ...

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 ...

Halfway between the winter solstice of Dec. 21 and the vernal equinox on March 20 is the first week of February. Putting this in different words, when we get to early February, we are halfway through ...

GRAND FORKS - This week's bird of the week looks quite a lot like last week's bird of the week, and the house finch and the common redpoll do have some things in common. They are both finches. To say ...

March has been a wintry lion in Westborough this year, so perhaps it’s not surprising that one group of northern visitors – a flock of common redpolls – has still been seen in town well into the month ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Common redpolls are one of my favorite birds. To have dozens of these ...

This beautiful male common redpoll is an eruptive winter visitor to the Garden State. GARDEN STATE BIRDERS are getting excited – a wave of common redpolls has found its way from its northern home to ...

What a difference two weeks makes. In mid-January, I watched cardinals, juncos, two kinds of nuthatches, blue jays, woodpeckers and an American tree sparrow, among others, at my front and back yard ...