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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of the blizzard, I was doing some work in my study while the rest of the family was slowly stirring into activity. My grandson came up the steps and said, "Grandad, you should see all ...