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Male
Photo by Rayh
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, June 2004

Carpodacus erythrinus

[edit] Identification

Male

• Bright rosy-pink head, breast and rump
• Dark brown wings
• 2 wing bars
• White belly
• Heavy bill
  

Female

• Yellowish-brown upperparts
• Brighter rump
• Buff underparts
• Grey head

Female
Photo by Akihaka
Halikko Bay, Finland, June 2007

[edit] Distribution

Breeding in Sweden, eastern Europe and Siberia, northern Iran, Pakistan, China, Tibet, and Japan.

Winters in south east China, Indochina, Burma, India and southern Iran.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

This is a polytypic species, consisting of five subspecies:

• C. e. erythrinus:

• Eastern Europe to western Asia; winters to India and Indochina

• C. e. grebnitskii:

• Eastern Siberia to Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk; winters to south-eastern China

• C. e. kubanensis:

• Caucasus to north-western Iran; winters to south-western Iran

• C. e. ferghanensis:

• Mountains of north-eastern Iran to northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and western Himalayas

• C. e. roseatus:

• Eastern Himalayas to Tibet and China; winters to southern India and Indochina

[edit] Habitat

Female
Photo by Sanya
Kosmodem'yansky, Ruza, Moscow, Russia, June 2006

Woodland, forest edge, thickets, near water.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

They mainly eat seeds, buds and shoots.

[edit] Breeding

They nest in low bushes. The clutch consists of 5 brown-spotted, dark blue eggs.

[edit] Vocalisation

They sing from an exposed perch.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Wikipedia
3. Collins Bird Guide ISBN 0 00 219728

• List of references

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