The appearance of redpolls is a welcome occurrence in early winter. The redpoll's appearance is a vivid reassurance that there is life in the bleak December landscape. Alas, this reassurance does not ...
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 in ...
It has been a good winter for birds, I assert without expectation of argument. For me, the evidence is plain. I have not lacked a subject for this column. Redpoll numbers have been building at our ...
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 ...
They first showed up in the region in November. I heard reports of some being seen as they flew over or flocks along the roadsides. But it was not until the end of the month, about Thanksgiving Day, ...
If you haven't noticed flocks of common redpolls this year, you've either spent too much time in the woods or holed-up by the wood stove with the curtains closed. These small, lively boreal finches ...
Molecular genetic studies of species are giving us clearer, more precise views of the natural world around us. These sorts of studies have the greatest public impacts when they reveal that a familiar ...
Molecular genetic studies of species are giving us clearer, more precise views of the natural world around us. These sorts of studies have the greatest public impacts when they reveal that a familiar ...