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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Irruption Alert: Remarkable Finch Records in the American South
By Ryan F. Mandelbaum: When Tyler Hoar’s new Winter Finch Forecast debuted, he predicted that this would be an exceptional winter for irrupting boreal birds. But no one expected a Common Redpoll to ...