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Flight Directions of Boreal Finches in the Irruption of 2020

by Bill Evans: As this year’s broad-spectrum finch irruption expanded, I happened to be taking a daily core sample of morning flight activity from a vista walking distance from my home, ~8 miles south of Read More

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Irruption Alert: Hoary Redpolls Are All Over And Here’s How to Find Them

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum: Dedicated finch fans know that it’s worth scanning every Common Redpoll flock for their frostier, even more boreal cousin: the Hoary Redpoll. Telling the two species apart can be tricky, but Read More

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The Redpoll Complex: Redpolls, redpolls, redpolls…….and the usual cautionary tales.

By Matthew A. Young: One of the things we, the Finch Research Network (FiRN),  plan to do for the birding and ornithological communities, is to help with tough finch identifications, and there’s perhaps no tougher Read More