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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Brambling

 

Brambling

Fringilla montifringilla

Gaelic: Breacan-caorainn

Photograph © Andy L
Garrabost - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
1st November, 2009

"...here is a couple of pics for you taken today the lone brambling and the greenie garrabost point"

 

Our Brambling photographs

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• Brambling
• Fringilla montifringilla
• Gaelic: Breacan-caorainn
• WI: Scarce (very small numbers each year) passage and winter visitor

 

Brambling records in the Western Isles

Scarce (very small numbers each year) passage and winter visitor
(Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report)

The chart below shows how abundant the Brambling is during a month or when you are more likely to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

Other local bird photographs

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