Mar. 28—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 ...

Why, a friend asked, are there so many birch seeds on top of the snowpack in Fairbanks? A day later, the answer hit me in the head. As I walked through the forest, I looked up just in time to get ...

The redpolls are coming, the redpolls are coming! Fortunately, the only weapons they carry are a tiny bill and a voracious appetite. The redpoll is a species made for the Arctic tundra, where they ...

GRAND FORKS – The bird columnist must make a choice between species that are regular here but ordinarily not abundant, and species that are often abundant but are absent this year. The choice goes 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 ...

Halfway between the winter solstice of Dec. 21 and the vernal equinox on March 20 is the first week of February. Putting this in different words, when we get to early February, we are halfway through ...

The longer the winter lasts, the more I appreciate the redpolls. These energetic little birds have been at my feeders frequently this winter. I'm tempted to write "exuberant." Unlike the Postal ...

This beautiful male common redpoll is an eruptive winter visitor to the Garden State. GARDEN STATE BIRDERS are getting excited – a wave of common redpolls has found its way from its northern home to ...