All four redpoll taxa in one photo!

My yard, Marquette, Michigan, 23 January 2013

Analysis. The bird on the far left is significantly larger than the nearby birds (compare it to the smaller the flammea Common Redpoll in front of it); it is quite dark, and has a large-ish bib; accepted by the MBRC as a rostrata, the second state record and the first county record. Also note that there are two Hoary Redpolls in this photo: the bird closest to the camera, and the bird in the rear, just slightly to the right of center. The latter bird is an exilipes Hoary. The former is a bit larger than the nearby (non-rostrata) Commons, and it’s underside streaking is somewhere on the lower end on Sibley’s Hornemanni/exilipes scale, thus, a Hornemanni.