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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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 ...

Its name, at least in Yakima, is a misnomer. The common redpoll is anything but common in these parts. It can be a routine, ho-hum sighting for any birder espying a common redpoll in Alaska, northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: For about a month, a woodpecker (looks like red-bellied to me with red head and black-and-white stripes) has been dive-bombing and then pecking loudly on our high living room windows, as well as ...