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 ...

This early winter a few of our readers have reported seeing one or more hoary redpolls. According to ornithologist, Arthur Cleveland Bent, writing in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 237: "The hoary ...

The hoary redpoll is bird of the week, not because any have appeared, but because some are anticipated. And because there is a plausible, if circuitous, connection between the redpoll and the ...

Just as we were beginning to say our goodbyes and good lucks, a small white bird flew into view, fluttered by and alit behind a tree stump. "Hah, there it is!" Slusarczyk announced. And there it was, ...

GRAND FORKS — A redpoll is bird of the week for the second time this year, which means, of course, that it is bird of the week for two consecutive weeks. This is unprecedented. Closely related species ...

The decisions combined the common redpoll and hairy redpoll, split up the barn owl into three species, and changed grammar. Defining a species is, like any other scientific endeavor, subject to ...

I saw the flock of birds, hand unloaded my shotgun and leaned it up against a tree, then grabbed my camera. My grouse hunt had been interrupted by a favorite winter bird: The common redpoll. The ...