BirdUp · Species
Redpoll
Acanthis flammea(Linnaeus, 1758)
Native
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Genus
- Acanthis
- Commonness
- Restricted
- Best seen
- Summer
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The redpoll is a species of small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Acanthis. It breeds in the Arctic and north temperate Holarctic tundra and taiga. The redpoll was formerly widely treated as three species: the common or mealy redpoll, the arctic or hoary redpoll, and the lesser redpoll.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- PAL, NA : low (locally high) Arctic to north temperate Holarctic tundra and taiga: south-west and south-east Greenland, Iceland, north Scandinavia east through north Russia to Chukotskiy Pen., Kamchatka and Sakhalin (east Russia). Also temperate west and west-central Palearctic lowland (montane in south) birch and larch woods: British Isles, south-west Scandinavia east to north Germany and south Poland; south to south-east France, Austria and Czech Republic
- Non-breeding range
- Irruptively southward
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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