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Brambling

Fringilla montifringilla

Notes:

Wondering what type of bird this is...visitor to my backyard tree today



1 species ID suggestions

Liam
Liam 4 months ago
Brambling
Fringilla montifringilla BirdForum

12 Comments

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 4 months ago

Nice of you to share your good fortune!

Thurd13
Thurd13 4 months ago

Thanks Birdlaylady6000! What a frenzy this little bird has created for birders and photographers in Vancouver & area, lots of visitors - all very respectful...

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 4 months ago

Nice to see you have the Brambling in your garden! I saw reports of it on the birding line. Great Bird for Vancouver!

Thurd13
Thurd13 4 months ago

Brambling returned today so was able to take a few more photos & have added them

Thurd13
Thurd13 4 months ago

Thanks Liam for ID...makes sense now why I couldn't ID it!...not a usual visitor to my area of the world...have reported to ebird as per your request.

Jeannette
Jeannette 4 months ago

António I was actually talking about the montifringilla, here you can see them in a flock... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/935...
The Coelebs we have all year too...

I imagined that because of your spotting of a Fringilla Coelebs :-) here i see them all year,but never in flocks,normaly singing in matting season for marking territory and atract femmales,in the winter i see them alone and normaly i see the malles,femmales are less coloured more dificult to see,a lovely bird :-)

Jeannette
Jeannette 4 months ago

Hehe António we share the same thought :)
Forgot to say it's only during winter we see it here... Every year great flocks come to eat in my garden...

Jeannette
Jeannette 4 months ago

Great spotting :)

It is common here in Denmark...

Great cache Thurd13,beautiful and rare,here in portugal we have the Fringilla Coelebs,similar in colours and a great singer,congrats and thanks for sharing

Liam
Liam 4 months ago

Great sighting! This is a very rare bird for North America. Please report to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
When you do, add a photo to the checklist:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/embe...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lat: 49.25, Long: -123.13

Spotted on Jan 5, 2013
Submitted on Jan 5, 2013

Spotted for mission

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