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Beware: Salmonella in Irruptive Finches

Author Ryan F. Mandelbaum: This winter’s superflight of irruptive finches has been especially rewarding for many of us with bird feeders, as flocks of Pine Siskins, Common Redpolls, Evening Grosbeaks and other boreal visitors have 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

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Irruption Alert: Redpolls Ride South In Perhaps Their Largest Push In Almost A Decade

By Tyler Hoar and Matthew Young: Redpolls are on the move this winter, and we’re perhaps looking at their biggest push south in almost a decade. Why is this, you ask?  Redpolls follow birch and Read More