Roselin de Sharpe

Identification

15 cm. Medium-sized slim, relatively small-billed rosefinch with long, slightly notched tail. Male has forehead to nape dark maroon with blackish streaks, very pale pink supercilium (some feathers tipped white) extending from above lores to just behind ear-coverts; lores, ear-coverts and cheeks very dark crimson with variable pink streaking; hindneck to lower back brownish with broad black streaks, scapulars and mantle sides with broad pale pinkish edges, rump contrastingly pale pink and more or less unmarked; upperwing blackish, tertials edged pinkish white, median and greater wing-coverts with pale pink or pale brown tips; tail dark brown, rectrices narrowly edged pink; chin and throat to neck-side dull pinkish maroon, underparts pale pinkish, undertail-coverts very pale pink-tinged greyish white; iris very dark brown; bill dark brownish; legs flesh-brown to pale greyish. Female is greyish olive-brown to greyish brown above, crown to rump heavily streaked blackish, head with pale buff supercilium from above lores to nape-side; upperwing dark brown, flight-feathers finely edged warm brown, tertials broadly edged pale whitish buff towards tips, coverts finely edged paler and tipped pale buff; tail dark brown, feathers edged buffish brown; lores to ear-coverts dark brown, cheeks to chin and throat paler and with blackish streaks; underparts almost entirely warm buff-brown, heavily streaked blackish on lower throat and breast to upper flanks, undertail-coverts paler buff-brown and more or less unstreaked; bare parts much as for male. Juvenile little known; resembles female.<p>Song un-described. Call is a short, sharp or piercing, metallic "spink spink".

Taxonomie

Nom scientifique

Carpodacus verreauxii

Autorité

(David, A & Oustalet, 1877)

Ordre

Passériformes

Famille

Fringillidés

Genre

Carpodacus

Répartition et habitat

S China (S &amp; W Sichuan and NE Yunnan) and NE Myanmar; winters at lower altitudes. Found in summer (presumed breeding period) in forest edge, second growth and areas of scrub and bushes in alpine meadows, at 3000–4600 m. At other times occurs in mixed forest, grassy hillsides with bushes and bamboo thickets at lower levels, at 2100–2900 m.

Aire de reproduction

PAL : se Palearctic in Hengduan Mts., in montane edge, scrub, alpine meadows: w, s Sichuan to far n, ne Myanmar and nw Yunnan (sw China)

Aire hors reproduction

to lower elevations

Migration

Vertical migration

Conservation

Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Very poorly known, but appears to be generally scarce to rare in most of its range. Perhaps uncommon in NE Yunnan. Uncommon in NE Myanmar, where possibly only a non-breeding visitor; fieldwork required in order to ascertain this species' true status in that country. It is not known to be subject to any significant threats.

Tendance de la population

stable