Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 28—Common redpolls, one of few Alaska songbirds that endure the grueling northern winter, are familiar visitors to ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS - This week's bird of the week looks quite a lot like last week's bird of the week, and the house finch and the common redpoll do have some things in common. They are both finches. To say ...

A big bunch of redpolls -- certainly 40 or more -- showed up at my backyard feeder west of Gilby, N.D., one afternoon last week. I've seen redpolls around Grand Forks, too, and several callers have ...

What a difference two weeks makes. In mid-January, I watched cardinals, juncos, two kinds of nuthatches, blue jays, woodpeckers and an American tree sparrow, among others, at my front and back yard ...

This has been a remarkable year for redpolls. Redpolls showed up early in winter at my place west of Gilby, N.D., and they've been increasing in numbers ever since. These are common redpolls. I ...

March has been a wintry lion in Westborough this year, so perhaps it’s not surprising that one group of northern visitors – a flock of common redpolls – has still been seen in town well into the month ...

Recently, I looked out at one of our feeding stations and spied a flock of birds that looked familiar yet unfamiliar. At first glance, I was pretty sure of what I was looking at: a flock of hungry ...

Molecular genetic studies of species are giving us clearer, more precise views of the natural world around us. These sorts of studies have the greatest public impacts when they reveal that a familiar ...

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 ...