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 ...

This early winter a few of our readers have reported seeing one or more hoary redpolls. According to ornithologist, Arthur Cleveland Bent, writing in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 237: "The hoary ...

Wednesday was the Feast of Santa Lucia, another of the December festivals that distinguish Northern nations. This is a day that I associate with hoary redpolls. Redpolls are small finches that come ...

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 ...

As winter settles in, people watching their birdfeeders hope to catch a glimpse of something out of the ordinary – perhaps a visitor from the Far North. Nothing satisfies this desire like the bubbly ...

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 ...

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 ...

They first showed up in the region in November. I heard reports of some being seen as they flew over or flocks along the roadsides. But it was not until the end of the month, about Thanksgiving Day, ...