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Blanford's Rosefinch

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Agraphospiza rubescens

Basic stats

Habitat

Boreal forest

Range

Bhutan, China, India and Nepal

Blanford's rosefinch, or the crimson rosefinch, is a finch found in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. Its natural habitat is boreal forest. It differs from the Carpodacus rosefinches in that both sexes have unstreaked plumage, with a thinner, less conical bill, more pointed wings and a shorter tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

It was formerly placed in Carpodacus but was moved to the monotypic genus Agraphospiza on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evidence. The common name commemorates the English zoologist William Thomas Blanford. The source read gives no size, diet or breeding information, so none is stated.

Quick answers

What habitat does the Blanford's Rosefinch live in?
Boreal forest
Where is the Blanford's Rosefinch found?
Bhutan, China, India and Nepal
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