Friday, January 23, 2009

That's HOARY, wise guy!


Hoary Redpoll
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson
Birders have been flocking to the Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota this winter, apparently to take photos and videos of ME! We Hoary Redpolls naturally feel we're better than those riff-raff Common Redpolls, but it's cool to have our belief in our species' superiority confirmed by all the paparazzi.

And, ahem--our name means "gray or white with or as if with age."

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