Common Redpoll Photo Gallery
Female/immature (flammea)
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.
© Ryan Schain / Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, December 23, 2012Female/immature
Uses its small bill to eat small seeds from trees such as willow, birch, alder, and spruce, as well as from grasses and wildflowers.
© Marie Read / Macaulay LibraryDecember 31, 2010Not all videos have soundAdult male (flammea)
Small-billed finch with heavily streaked sides. Adult males have a red crown and a pink-washed chest.
© Bruce Gates / Macaulay LibraryOntario, January 22, 2016Adult male (flammea)
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.
© Eric Gofreed / Macaulay LibraryAlaska, June 15, 2017Juvenile (flammea)
Small finch with a notched tail. Juveniles are dark brown and heavily streaked overall.
© Heather Pickard / Macaulay LibraryNunavut, August 18, 2016Female/immature (rostrata/islandica)
© Ryan Schain / Macaulay LibraryMassachusetts, December 23, 2012Flock
In the winter found in open woodlands, scrubby fields, and backyard feeders.
© Chuck Gates / Macaulay LibraryOregon, January 27, 2013Flock
Travels in flocks of up to several hundred individuals. Often found at backyard bird feeders in the winter in the northern U.S. and southern Canada.
© Becca Engdahl / Macaulay LibraryMinnesota, February 23, 2016Compare with Similar Species
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Species in This Family
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Fringillidae)
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