Who's who? Both species of redpolls have red caps, but the common redpoll is darker overall, with more streaking on its breast, stomach and flanks. The hoary is a lightly marked pale bird with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...