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.”

分类信息

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:

学名
Procarduelis nipalensis
命名信息
(Hodgson, 1836)
Passeriformes
Fringillidae
Procarduelis

分布与栖息地

迁徙
Vertical migration

保护状况

种群趋势
stable

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分布

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