The redpolls get their name from the bright red spot on the top of their head. While the common redpoll and hoary redpoll may look alike to laypeople, avian biologists and enthusiasts can tell ...

Common redpolls, one of few Alaska songbirds that endure the grueling northern winter, are familiar visitors to Southcentral. But this winter, an explosion of the little scarlet-capped finches in ...

What makes these forays through the front yard to the street especially delightful are the common redpolls that have taken up temporary residence in my Turnagain neighborhood. Quiet for much of ...

The decisions combined the common redpoll and hairy redpoll, split up the barn owl into three species, and changed grammar. Defining a species is, like any other scientific endeavor, subject to ...

It was enough to make me spit out coffee. It looked like a common redpoll, I thought. I grabbed a camera and took a few documentary photos and then consulted a bird guide. Sure enough it was.

Isn’t it great when our winter bird feeders are overrun with common redpolls, pine siskins and purple finches? When pine grosbeaks feed voraciously on fruit still hanging on trees? And ...

A rarely-seen, red-listed bird has been spotted near a Herefordshire National Trust estate. A sighting of a lesser redpoll ...

On Thursday, the American Ornithological Society—the organization that oversees bird taxonomy—announced that the hoary redpoll finch, a small, plump bird commonly found in the Arctic, will be ...