Small finch with a short, conical yellow bill. Females/immatures are brown and streaky with a tiny red patch on the crown. Note streaking on undertail coverts on males and females.
Uses its small bill to eat small seeds from trees such as willow, birch, alder, and spruce, as well as from grasses and wildflowers.
Small-billed finch with heavily streaked sides. Adult males have a red crown and a pink-washed chest.
Small finch with a small, pointed, seed-eating bill. Adult males have a red crown and a pink-washed chest. Back and sides are heavily streaked.
Small finch with a notched tail. Juveniles are dark brown and heavily streaked overall.
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Common Redpolls are small songbirds with small heads and small, pointed, seed-eating bills. The tail is short with a small notch at the tip.
About the size of an American Goldfinch.
sparrow-sized or smallerCommon Redpolls from Greenland are larger and darker than those breeding in Alaska and Canada.
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Fringillidae)
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