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Re: Brambling along
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Stefan Gleissberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Stefan Gleissberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Jan 2016 09:17:45 -0500
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Near my hometown in the Black Forest in SW Germany, there was a Brambling irruption this past winter, with estimated millions of birds. I wasn’t there, but there are impressive youtube videos, with ‘murmurations’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4lNPzuR2EI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTrCP0xel0

Stefan Gleissberg
Athens, OH
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On Jan 3, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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