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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
Imagine a Common Redpoll dusted with hoarfrost, with a white rump and white undertail coverts. Look carefully for such birds within each Common Redpoll flock and you may find the rarer Hoary Redpoll. The breeding range of this species extends over High Arctic Canada and northwest Greenland (A. h. hornemanni), and the Low Arctic of both the New and Old Worlds (A. h. exilipes). Wintering takes place at higher latitudes than the Common Redpoll with the Hoary Redpoll's regular North American range barely reaching the lower 48 states.
See Common Redpoll: Breed in the shrubby deciduous and coniferous growth of the subarctic and northern boreal region in the extreme north of the province (Smith 1996). In winter in boreal and parkland regions Common Redpolls eat the seeds of conifers, birch, and alder. In settled regions they feed in grain fields on canola and flax; along roadsides on weed seeds including goldenrod, dock, various thistles, lamb's quarters, pigweed, ragweed, and shrubby cinquefoil; and in backyard feeders on sunola , canola, flax, or nyjer seed, and even crabapples and suet.
Christmas Bird Count data show that 1.5% of all redpolls are Hoary Redpolls; this is an underestimate since observers tend to look at a flock of redpolls until they see a Hoary Redpoll and assume the rest are Common Redpolls. Furthermore, if no Hoary Redpolls are seen, the whole flock may be classified as Common Repolls. Banding records, with each bird inspected closely, show that 2.5% of all redpolls banded are Hoary Redpolls.
Original text by Orval Beland. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Hoary Redpoll in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Redpoll (Hoary) in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=HORE&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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