Redpoll
Lesser Redpoll
Both Sexes
Small, brown finch with red forehead and black bib.
Hoary Redpoll
Carduelis hornemanni Holboll
Status Rare in winter.
Hoary Redpoll
Male
Similar Species
Pine Siskin more streaked, without red, without black bib. Yellow in wings.
Common Redpoll difficult to distinguish, but slightly smaller, darker, with larger bill and more streaking.
Hoary redpoll Carduelis hornemanni
Identification Tips:
Length: 5 inches
Conical bill
Red forehead
Black chin
Gray back with black streaks
Unstreaked rump
Pale underparts with faintly streaked sides and flanks
Forked tail ...
MEALY REDPOLL LINNET.
[Hoary Redpoll.]
LINARIA BOREALIS, Temm.
[Carduelis hornemanni.] ...
Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) - Ocracoke, Hyde Co., NC
Common Redpoll with male House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), Ocracoke, NC 1/17/04.
Arctic Redpoll
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The Hoary Redpoll is normally found in or near the high Arctic year-round.
The lesser redpoll is a small brown streaked finch with a distinctive red forehead, small black bib and, in breeding males, red upper chests. This contrasts with largely pale under parts (streaked on the flanks).
Common Redpoll
(Acanthis flammea)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2007
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Redpoll, Hoary aka Artic Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni Found: Northern parts of North America, Europe, Asia
Photographed by: 1) Dmitry Maslov ...
Redpolls
Red Siskin (Carduelis cucullata)
Rosey Rump Waxbills, Crimson Rumped Waxbills, Sundevall's Waxbill ...
Lesser Redpoll (Carduelis cabaret)
The Lesser Redpoll breeds in the British Isles, around the Alps and around the North Sea from northern France to south-east Norway.
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 ...
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 ...
The birds of this genus - the crossbills - when their other characters are taken into account, prove to be intimately allied on the one hand to the grosbeaks (Pinicola) and on the other through the redpolls (Aegiothus) to the linnets (Linota) - if ...
Carduelis flammea - Redpoll
Carduelis hornemanni - Arctic Redpoll (photo)
Loxia
Loxia leucoptera - White-winged Crossbill
Loxia curvirostra - Common Crossbill (photo)
Loxia pytyopsittacus - Parrot Crossbill
Carpodacus ...
It is fairly certain[vague] that the crossbills are actually derived from proto-redpoll ancestors quite recently, and it was suggested that they should be placed in the same genus, for which the name Loxia would then have priority.
The genus Carduelis includes the Goldfinches, Siskins and Redpolls. The smallest goldfinch is C. psaltria, the Lesser Goldfinch. No, there is no Greater Goldfinch. Go figure. Rich S.
Genus Carduelis - Linnets, redpolls, goldfinches, greenfinches, some siskins.
Genus Carpodacus - Rosefinches
Genus Loxia - Crossbills
Genus Mycerobas - Grosbeaks
Genus Neospiza - Sao Tomé Grosbeak
Genus Linurgus - Oriole Finch ...
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June 26 - NH Coast Whale Watch
I went out on the morning run with Granite State Whale Watch
today. The whales on Jeffreys Ledge have been putting on great shows ...
Algonquin Park - Boreal Chickadee, marten, redpolls and snow angels....
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Resident birds like woodpeckers, chickadees, redpolls, jays, and grosbeaks frequent birdfeeders.
Hatching asynchronous, increasingly so as season progresses. Late nester except in CA and s w; older birds nest earlier than younger birds. Winter flocks up to 300 common, often with siskins, redpolls.
The redpolls, genus Aegiothus, are northern finches that winter in the N United States; with the pine siskins, goldfinches, and various other seedeaters they wander around the country in small flocks, often congregating at feeding stations.
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), ...
 See also: Finch, Common Redpoll, Siskin, Goldfinch, American Goldfinch
  
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