Common Rosefinch

Carpodacus erythrinus (Pallas, 1770)

Common Rosefinch, Carpodacus erythrinus, breeds across the Palearctic from southern and eastern Scandinavia and north-west Europe through Russia to the Pacific, and south through parts of Europe and Asia to the Himalayas and western China. Outside the breeding season it moves to lowland cultivation and scrub in the Indian Peninsula, northern and central south-east Asia, and eastern China. It is a finch of forest, scrub and montane country. The adult male is noted for its rosy-carmine head, breast and rump, while females and young males are much duller.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias

Breeding range

Palearctic: subarctic to temperate Palearctic in forest to scrub, montane in c, s: s, e Scandinavia and nw Europe (except British Isles) through n subarctic Russia to w Chukotskiy Pen. and Kamchatka (e Russia); in s through n France, Switzerland, Slovenia to Bulgaria, n Turkey and the Caucasus, n Iran, c, s Afghanistan n to the Altai and s through Himalayas to nw Yunnan, Shaanxi and w Guizhou (nc, sc China)

Nonbreeding range

to lowland cultivation and scrub in Indian Pen., n, c se Asia to e China