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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edward" data-source="post: 1316786" data-attributes="member: 822">And conversely, I've been out with experienced British birders in Iceland when we've heard a Redpoll and they hadn't a clue what was making the noise, despite familiarity with Lessers.Dougie, as for your suggestion that the darker birds on that Icelandic link may be Lessers, then I'm not sure. We've never had any documented records of Lesser Redpoll here (which doesn't mean that there aren't any). I get these dark, coffee-coloured Redpolls in my garden in winter up until mid-March and then they disappear. They are huge and I've always assumed that they were Greenlandic.E</blockquote>