Pink-browed rosefinch
Male from Nanda Devi National Park, Uttarakhand, India
Female from Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim, India
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Fringillidae
Subfamily:	Carduelinae
Genus:	Carpodacus
Species:	C. rodochroa
Binomial name
Carpodacus rodochroa (Vigors, 1831)
Synonyms
Carpodacus rodochrous Vigors, 1831

The pink-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus rodochroa) is a finch in the family Fringillidae. The species was first described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1831. It ranges across the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the Himalayas, and is migratory. It is found in Bhutan, Tibet, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests.

The male is bright raspberry pink with a clean “browed” facial pattern and faint streaking on the back, the female, brown with streaked buffy underparts, broad white eyebrows, and lightly streaked pale cheeks and throat.^[2]

Gallery

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  Female in Kullu - Manali district of Himachal Pradesh, India
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  Male in Kullu
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  Male in Kullu
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  Females at 3,000 m (10,000 ft) in Kullu
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  Male in Kullu
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  Male at 2,900 m (9,500 ft) in Kullu

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