Pink-rumped Rosefinch

Carpodacus waltoni (Sharpe, 1905)

Pink-rumped Rosefinch, Carpodacus waltoni, is a finch in the family Fringillidae that breeds across the Tibetan Plateau and Hengduan Mountains in the south-central and south-eastern Palearctic, including north-eastern Tibet, south-eastern Qinghai, western Sichuan, southern to south-eastern Tibet and north-western Yunnan. It uses high-montane dry scrub and forest edge, and outside the breeding season it moves to lower elevations. The bird is identified by its pink-rumped plumage. It was described by Sharpe in 1905.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias

Breeding range

Palearctic: sc, se Palearctic in Tibetan Plateau and Hengduan Mts., in high-montane dry scrub, forest edge: ne Tibet, se Qinghai and w Sichuan, in s to se Tibet and nw Yunnan (wc, c China)

Nonbreeding range

to lower elevations