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 ...

Just as we were beginning to say our goodbyes and good lucks, a small white bird flew into view, fluttered by and alit behind a tree stump. "Hah, there it is!" Slusarczyk announced. And there it was, ...

If Hitler had been a bird watcher, how might he have reacted to not being the first person to see and photograph hoary redpolls in Colorado recently? If Hitler had been a birder in the United States, ...

The redpolls -- tiny streaked finches with black chins and red caps and chests -- seemed to appear everywhere at the park. They were joined by other irruptive species such as pine siskins and ...

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 ...

Here are a couple of questions for you: How is Prince Harry like a hoary redpoll? And what does that have to do with North Dakota? Stop reading if you don't care. Redpolls are birds, though not ...

Bohemian waxwings have also irrupted our way this winter. A northern cardinal has been scrabbling in the brush a short distance up from the end of Hawthorn Avenue for almost two months. And tundra ...