Chinese Long-tailed Rosefinch

Carpodacus lepidus (David, A & Oustalet, 1877)

This finch is endemic to China and inhabits temperate forest, temperate grassland, and subtropical or tropical moist scrub.

How to identify

Where and when it's recorded

No records at the public birding hotspots we track. It may be rare, remote, or its locations protected.

Questions

Where does the Chinese Long-tailed Rosefinch live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: south-central to east-central Palearctic in eastern Tibetan Plateau to central Chinese mountains, in montane forest: southeastern Tibet to Sichuan, southern Shaanxi and southwestern Shanxi, in south to northwestern Yunnan (north-central, south-central China).

What family is the Chinese Long-tailed Rosefinch in?

It belongs to the family Finches, Euphonias (Fringillidae), order Passerines (Passeriformes).

Range

Palearctic: south-central to east-central Palearctic in eastern Tibetan Plateau to central Chinese mountains, in montane forest: southeastern Tibet to Sichuan, southern Shaanxi and southwestern Shanxi, in south to northwestern Yunnan (north-central, south-central China)

Breeding range, IOC World Bird List 15.2

Subspecies · 2