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The plebeian redpoll, because of its name, is a species that might tend to be dismissed by birders new to the game. “Stale” birds just aren’t very exciting, right?

Well, what’s common and what isn’t depends on where you last. Around here, redpolls are a rare winter visitor, and northern Illinois is about as far south as they ever journeys.

Every birder I know wants to see a common redpoll, and lately many are getting their want. All signs point to 2012 being a redpoll “invasion” year, with sightings around DuPage County and all of the Chicago space on the rise since mid-January. This appears to be the best opportunity since 2009 to add customary redpoll to your life list.

Redpolls, along with pine siskins and crossbills, be a member of to a group we call the winter finches. They are “irruptive species,” drift they sometimes appear here in unusually large numbers. Or they might not show up at all.

It all depends on the winter food rig out on their arctic and sub-arctic breeding grounds. If the cone and seed crop is well-proportioned, they may never leave the tundra. But when food is scarce, the birds wander south in nomadic flocks.

Source: Chicago Daily Herald

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