Graceful medium-sized rosefinch of the Himalayas. Male is bright raspberry pink with a clean “browed” facial pattern and faint streaking on the back. Female is brown with streaked buffy underparts, broad white eyebrows, and lightly streaked pale cheeks and throat. Favors subalpine forest edge and grassy hillsides with scrubby cover in the breeding season; descends in the winter, using similar habitat in the foothills.
Meet the pink-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus rodochroa), a graceful finch in the family Fringillidae.
The male bird of the species has a bright, raspberry pink plumage, with clean ‘brows’ faint streaks on its back.
The female is more of a brown colour, with white eyebrows and light streaks on its cheeks and throat.
The bird can be found in the Himalayahs.
The bird has a diet of seeds, berries, grasses, and small herbs.
The female finch builds a nest about two metres above the ground during the breeding seasons, made from bark, moss and animal hair.