Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) - Ocracoke, Hyde Co., NC
Common Redpoll with male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), Ocracoke, NC 1/17/04.
Common Redpoll
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Common Redpolls breed in the northern parts of the Old and New Worlds. They live in scrub forests, birch groves and tundra. They are very active, social, twittering little birds.
Common Redpoll Behaviour
No observations regarding Common Redpoll behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Common Redpolls ...
Common Redpoll
(Acanthis flammea)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2007
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Common Redpoll
Carduelis flammea (Linnaeus)
Status Irregularly common in winter. Abundant some years, occasionally rare to absent other years.
Common Redpolls
Cordon Bleu Finches / Blue-capped Waxbills
Crimson Rumped Waxbills, Sundevall's Waxbill ...
Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)
Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes verpertinus)
House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) ...
Common Redpoll
Blackburnian Warbler
Baltimore Oriole
American Robin (on breast)
American Redstart ...
Common Redpoll Carduelis flammea. Occasional in winter and spring in all regions. Found in early successional stages, especially willow and alder; sightings mostly at feeders.
Common Redpoll
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
American Robin
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Compared with Common Redpoll, Lesser Redpoll is significantly smaller and has richer plumage tones. Vocalizations are also slightly different.
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Similar Species: Common Redpoll
Bird Feeders: Will come to feeders for sunflower seeds, millet, and niger ("thistle") seed.
Conservation Status: Seems to be generally stable throughout its normal range.
In their habits I could see no difference between them and the Common Redpoll; but their notes, although in some degree similar, as is usually the case in all birds of the same family, ...
Pipit, 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 1 >Common Redpoll. > >Saw small numbers of Fulmars--only about 4; almost a hundred Dovekies; 4 possible distant flyby Atlantic Puffins; a few hundred B-l Kittiwakes; almost a hundred large Alcids (Murre/Razo-types); ...
Goldfinches often flock with Pine Siskins and Common Redpolls. Spring males are brilliant yellow and shiny black with a bit of white.
The Hoary Redpoll is very similar to the Common Redpoll but has an unstreaked rump and a smaller bill.
The third type is the 'Greenland Redpoll' (C. rostrata), which is another winter visitor and is larger than the Common Redpoll and darker than the Lesser Redpoll.
In Greenland, prey is largely limited to snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis), northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe), Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus), common redpolls (Acanthis flammea), rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta), ...
Common Redpoll Acanthus flammea: Jones Beach State Park, Nassau County, NY, 26 Feb
Pine Siskin Spinus pinus: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 30 Apr
Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan ...
 See also: Redpoll, Finch, Goldfinch, Purple, Sparrow
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