You saw a striking bird with a red head, did you? You wonder what it is. That shouldn't be too hard to figure out, should it?

Other northern finch species such as Pine Siskin, and Pine Grosbeak made an appearance on the count but are still relatively ...

Winter finches like the common redpoll arrive to feed on weed seeds. Their cousins the red and white-billed crossbills come to feed on pine cones. Along the roadsides, on recently harvested fields ...

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White-throated sparrows have now been documented in low numbers in six of the last seven CBCs. Compared to 2023’s count, Erikson said that the large flock of “thousands of red crossbills, white-winged ...

Throughout the winter and well into April, Red Crossbills were regular at Morton Arboretum in Lisle — a classic “invasion year” for the species. Some years we don’t see any crossbills at all.

The white pine cone crop that produced a major irruption of red crossbills last year is poor to absent this year. Purple finches usually move south each winter. A moderate flight of them has ...

Red crossbills, a finch that in some years can show up in numbers in the region, also may decide to nest during the colder months. These birds are not so much migratory as nomadic, with flocks ...