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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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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