This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding ...

The common redpoll now includes the hoary redpole in its species. The American Ornithological Society decided the latter was just a different race, not a different species. Credit: Courtesy of Bob ...

The hoary redpoll is bird of the week, not because any have appeared, but because some are anticipated. And because there is a plausible, if circuitous, connection between the redpoll and the ...

If Hitler had been a bird watcher, how might he have reacted to not being the first person to see and photograph hoary redpolls in Colorado recently? If Hitler had been a birder in the United States, ...

This early winter a few of our readers have reported seeing one or more hoary redpolls. According to ornithologist, Arthur Cleveland Bent, writing in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 237: "The hoary ...

Just as we were beginning to say our goodbyes and good lucks, a small white bird flew into view, fluttered by and alit behind a tree stump. "Hah, there it is!" Slusarczyk announced. And there it was, ...

Here are a couple of questions for you: How is Prince Harry like a hoary redpoll? And what does that have to do with North Dakota? Stop reading if you don't care. Redpolls are birds, though not ...

Common and hoary redpolls are 2 closely related finches of the boreal forest and Arctic tundra scrub. The common is the more widespread species of the 2, usually inhabiting subarctic forest during the ...