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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...