A female or young male eats a crane fly. Photo: Matt Winter

Redpoll

April 2019

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The redpoll is named after the distinctive red patch on their crown. It’s a small bird of the finch family and was introduced from Britain between 1862 and 1875.

Conservation status Introduced and naturalised. Features Redpolls are the smallest introduced finch. They are brownish in colour and streaked with off-white and very similar in appearance to a sparrow or skylark. The distinguishing red patch on the head is carried by both sexes. The adult males have a variable amount of pink on the lower […]
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