page_title: Brambling
section_title: Distribution and habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Brambling / Distribution and habitat
caption_attribution_description: Fringilla montifringilla
context_page_description: The brambling is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has also been called the cock o' the north and the mountain finch. It is widespread and migratory, often seen in very large flocks.
context_section_description: This bird is widespread, in the breeding season, throughout the forests of northern Europe and east across the Palearctic. It is migratory, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, northern India, northern Pakistan, China, and Japan.  It regularly strays into Alaska during migration and may continue as far south as the western United States. The global population of bramblings is about 100 to 200 million, with a decreasing trend.
  Open coniferous or birch woodland is favoured for breeding.
caption: Male and female in Poland
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