Redpoll

Redpoll

I searched Google for common redpoll.

Guess what the answer Google gave to me was?

It was a large number of photos of small sympathetic birds that especially during wintertime visit the feeding place of my summer cottage garden.

Then I wrote words arctic redpoll in the Google search box.

Now, too, the answer was a large number of a small sympathetic birds.

I'm not quite sure if among the common redpolls visiting the feeding place of my cottage are some arctic redpolls, too. That's because the common redpoll and the arctic redpoll look pretty much alike. That is why it's very difficult to see the difference between the two. As a matter of fact these two birds can crossbreed with each other. That's why I sometimes I wonder why we are talking of two different species. Why aren't we simply talking of redpoll.