Dark-breasted Rosefinch
Procarduelis nipalensis
Dark medium-sized rosefinch. Male is is dark pink with a lighter throat and eyebrow. Female is dark brown with light wingbars. Both sexes can be similar to Vinaceous Rosefinch, but note male’s different head pattern and female’s unstreaked underparts and noticeable wingbars. Forages on the ground in montane and hill forest, forest edge, and rocky meadows and slopes. Gives a wheezy sparrow-like “wheer.”
Taxonomy
The dark-breasted rosefinch was formerly placed in the genus Carpodacus but was moved Procarduelis based on the results from the phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.<p>Subspecific variation is mostly clinal, with the plumage becoming darker from west to east. There are between two-three recognised subspecies:
- Scientific name
- Procarduelis nipalensis
- Authority
- (Hodgson, 1836)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Genus
- Procarduelis
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Vertical migration
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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