Long-tailed Rosefinch

Appearance

Medium-sized finch with stout beak and fairly long tail. Adult males rose-coloured, dark streaked mantle, whitish crown and throat. Outer tail-feathers and broad wingbars white. Females are pale grey and white. In 1st winter males breast and back rose-colored tinged.

Natural History

The Long-tailed Rosefinch is a species of the East Palearctic. Despite its striking appearance and the penetrating calls and song it is rather secretive and sometimes difficult to observe.

As food sources it uses seeds, berries and buds of plants and bushes but also seeds of grasses and even reed.

Taxonomy

Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus sibiricus
-> SW Siberia and NE Kazakhstan to Mongolia and NC China
Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus ussuriensis
-> E Siberia and NE China
Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus sanguinolentus
-> Sakhalin and Kuril Is., N Japan
Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus lepidus
-> NE Tibet to NC and C China
Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus henrici
-> E Tibet and SC China

Object of study

All vocalisations, especially song.

Vocalizations

Irruptions —

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