Small finch with a tiny conical bill and a notched tail. Adult males are mostly white with a red crown patch and a pink washed chest. Some individuals like this one are extremely pale with limited streaking on the sides while others are darker with more streaking.
Small finch with a tiny yellow bill. Females/immatures are white overall with a red crown patch and lightly streaked backs and sides. Note unstreaked undertail coverts.
Juveniles are white covered by brown streaks above and below.
Small finch with a tiny yellow bill. Females/immatures have a small red crown and vary from very pale with limited streaking to darker like this one. Note unmarked undertail coverts.
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A very small songbird with a short, notched tail and a thick-based but very small bill that looks “pushed in” compared to Common Redpoll. Fluffed up plumage often makes this species appear portly.
Larger than a Golden-crowned Kinglet, smaller than a House Finch.
sparrow-sized or smallerOrnithologists recognize two subspecies. The larger, paler hornemanni nests in northern Greenland and Baffin Island. The smaller, somewhat darker exilipes nests in northern Canada and Alaska, as well as in northernmost Eurasia.
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Fringillidae)
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