Folks who go beyond a tick on their lists for Ohio's second recognized
brambling may be interested in some of the articles called up by a
search for <brambling records in north america>. This highly migratory
Eurasian species actually has at least one North American breeding
record--not surprisingly, on Attu.
        This species is a great flocker, with fall gatherings by the millions
at times in Europe; I lived in Ireland for a while, and though I saw
many bramblings, nothing like that! Some N Am records have been rejected
as wild birds because photographs allegedly showed cage wear on the
feathers; this scruple is a bugbear of records committees. The origin of
bramblings is most often attributed to Asian sites, but Ohio is a lot
closer to Ireland than to Attu!
Bill Whan

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