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Fringilla montifringilla

Linnaeus, 1758

Brambling

G5Secure Found in 3 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →
G5SecureGlobal Rank
Least concernIUCN
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101664
Element CodeABPBY01020
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVertebrate Animal
IUCNLeast concern
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCraniata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyFringillidae
GenusFringilla
Other Common Names
Pinson du Nord (FR)
Concept Reference
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
Conservation Status
Rank MethodExpertise without calculation
Review Date2016-04-07
Change Date1996-12-04
Range Extent Comments
Old World species, but fairly common but irregular migrant on Aleutians; casual fall and winter visitor to southern Alaska, islands in Bering Sea, with a few records in Canada and lower 48 states (some records may be of escaped cage birds) (NGS 1983).
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

In Old World: mixed deciduous-coniferous forest, forest edge and openings, birch woods, and birch and willow-scrub beyond tree limit; in migration and winter also in woodland and weedy fields (AOU 1983, Terres 1980).
Terrestrial Habitats
Forest - MixedWoodland - HardwoodWoodland - ConiferWoodland - MixedShrubland/chaparralSavannaGrassland/herbaceousOld fieldTundra
Palustrine Habitats
Riparian
Other Nations (1)
CanadaNU
Roadless Areas (3)
Alaska (3)
AreaForestAcres
North BaranofTongass National Forest314,089
RedoubtTongass National Forest68,347
Sitka UrbanTongass National Forest112,003
References (4)
  1. American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1983. Check-list of North American Birds, 6th edition. Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas. 877 pp.
  2. American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in <i>The Auk</i>]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
  3. National Geographic Society (NGS). 1983. Field guide to the birds of North America. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.
  4. Terres, J. K. 1980. The Audubon Society encyclopedia of North American birds. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.