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red crossbill

  1. Red crossbill (male)

    Red crossbill (male)

  2. redcrossbill31024.JPG

    redcrossbill31024.JPG

    A very cooperative Red Crossbill posing in the sunlight.
  3. red crossbill (male)

    red crossbill (male)

  4. red crossbill (juvenile)

    red crossbill (juvenile)

  5. red crossbill (male)

    red crossbill (male)

  6. Red Crossbill

    Red Crossbill

  7. Red Crossbill

    Red Crossbill

    This is an adult male. Red Crossbills specialize in feeding on Pine Cones. The crossed bill tip seen here enables them to extract pine nuts from the cones. Crossbills are nomadic by nature with their populations shifting from year to year and season to season. They move in response to changes...
  8. Female red crossbills

    Female red crossbills

  9. Red Crossbill

    Red Crossbill

    Red Crossbills specialize in feeding on Pine Cones. They divide up into wandering populations with distinctive call-notes. These call-types do not map neatly onto described subspecies partly because these nomads have no fixed home breeding range. I made a voice recording which has been...
  10. A big year

    A big year

    for spruce cones, and therefor also for Red Crossbills.
  11. red crossbill (female)

    red crossbill (female)

    busily feeding on the cones
  12. Red Crossbill male

    Red Crossbill male

  13. Red Crossbill female

    Red Crossbill female

  14. Red Crossbill (Type 2)

    Red Crossbill (Type 2)

    Always fun to see crossbills, I got lucky that this one perched low as it was panting in the 92F heat.
  15. male red crossbill

    male red crossbill

  16. Common crossbill

    Common crossbill

    Met some lovely youngsters today.
  17. T

    Red Crossbills? MA, USA

    Continuing irruption here, but I'd still like confirmation on this poor recording. Thanks in advance!
  18. Red Crossbill

    Red Crossbill

    A lifer for me, a family of crossbills arrived at my feeder for a very short stay. The male and female each posed for me but the youngster was too busy trying to make its way from the feeder roof down to the seed.
  19. Red Crossbill (Male)

    Red Crossbill (Male)

    Another Lifer for me!!!! Eeeeeekkkkkkk!!!!!
  20. Common Crossbill / Red Crossbill

    Common Crossbill / Red Crossbill

  21. Red cross 6

    Red cross 6

    Last one of the Red crossbill.
  22. Red cross 5

    Red cross 5

    Three more of the Red crossbill today. Tomorrow just one last one, then on to the White-winged.
  23. Red cross 4

    Red cross 4

    Three more of the Red crossbill today. Tomorrow just one last one, then on to the White-winged.
  24. Red cross 3

    Red cross 3

    Three more of the Red crossbill today. Tomorrow just one last one, then on to the White-winged.
  25. Red cross 2

    Red cross 2

    Red crossbill, female.
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