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Asian rosy finch

Asian rosy finch
Leucosticte arctoa.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Leucosticte
Species: L. arctoa
Binomial name
Leucosticte arctoa
Pallas, 1811

The Asian rosy finch or Asian rosy-finch (Leucosticte arctoa) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It breeds in Mongolia and North Asia; it winters in Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin and Japan. Its natural habitats are tundra and temperate grassland.

This species has been genetically included in a group of Arid-Zone Carduelini finches, which comprises the following species: Leucosticte arctoa tephrocotis, Leucosticte arctoa arctoa, Carpodacus nipalensis, Rhodopechys githaginea, Rhodopechys mongolica.


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