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The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (''Carpodacus sibiricus'') is a species of
finch
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches generally have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where the ...
of the family Fringillidae
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches generally have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where the ...
.
It is found in Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, and Russia. Its natural habitat
In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...
s are temperate forests, subtropical
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical zone, geographical and Köppen climate classification, climate zones immediately to the Northern Hemisphere, north and Southern Hemisphere, south of the tropics. Geographically part of the Ge ...
or tropical moist shrubland, and temperate grassland.
It is a very rare vagrant to Europe, but like several related Asiatic rosefinches, is reasonably frequent in the cage bird trade, so many records have been considered to relate to escapes.
Taxonomy
The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch was formerly placed in the genus ''Uragus'', but was moved to ''Carpodacus'' based on the results of phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.
References
Carpodacus Birds of Mongolia Birds of Japan Birds described in 1773 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Fringillidae-stub