How to find Red Crossbills? (1 Viewer)

Does anyone have any tips on how to find red crossbills?

Learn the calls......and find any large Pine wood in your area and with a bit of patience you never know!


Finding the birds by calls though is probably your best bet.

Exactly what I would suggest...
Knowing the calls will make having flight views a lot easier: I even saw them in London this year, without a pine in sight.

cnybirder said:

Does anyone have any tips on how to find red crossbills?

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This was in the RBA for Buffalo." The unprecedented invasion of WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS continues.
Experienced birders are noting that they have seen more crossbills at
one time than they have seen in their entire lives. Reports this week
- 55 at Acacia Cemetery on North Tonawanda Creek Road in the Town of
Wheatfield. In Newfane, 25 at Krull Park and 35 at the church camp on
Route 18 near Phillips Road. 20 more crossbills in the Oak Orchard
Wildlife Management Area on East Shelby Road. And at Sinking Ponds in
East Aurora, 14 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS and 2 PINE SISKINS."