Unusually high numbers of the chunky little finches in Southcentral are prompting surprising questions from bird lovers.
Common redpolls, one of few Alaska songbirds that endure the grueling northern winter, are familiar visitors to Southcentral.
“This is a pretty awesome year, in my opinion,” said Jim Johnson, a migratory bird biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage. “It’s not unusual to see redpolls but it’s certainly unusual to see them in these numbers.” Bird TLC has received several phone calls about the large number of Common Redpolls coming to bird feeders. Some of the...Bird TLC took to social media to defuse any tension — “People being angry for birds coming to a bird feeder,” as one commenter summed up the situation, with a shrug emoji — through posts reminding concerned bird lovers that redpolls are an impressive part of Alaska’s winter bird scene.
This winter’s population boom, biologists and botanists say, coincides with a glut of spruce cones and birch seeds.
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