This topic was pretty well covered on Maine-birds in 2013. You can read Louis Bevier's great interpretation of those blogs here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/maine-birds/bevier$20redpoll/maine-birds/Rfug1YQOVrA/CNrmtc4FZpIJ
If you don't feel like reading that, the quick answer is that these two species are not lumped: http://checklist.aou.org/taxa/2766
Doug Hitchcox
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Maine Audubon
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On Feb 4, 2015, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Bartrug <bbartrug@gmail.com> wrote:It's my belief, possibly incorrect, that the A.O.U. has lumped the hoary redpoll and common redpoll under the species name common redpoll. Which seems reasonable at first look, as there seem to be intermediate plummage variations. It could be I misread, and the A.O.U. is considering lumping the two. There is some conflicting information, see the two papers below.bab--Bruce Bartrug
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