Carpodacus sibiricus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The Siberian long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus) is a species of finch of the family Fringillidae. It is found in Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, and Russia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical 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. 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. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulaanbaatar | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | |
| 2 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 3 | Sendai | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 4 | Yekaterinburg | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 5 | Almaty | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan | |
| 6 | Nagoya | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 7 | Seoul | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 8 | Tokyo | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 9 | Osaka | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 10 | Sapporo | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novosibirsk Zoo | 🇷🇺 Russia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch sighting in Sendai on a given day, based on 124 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 39th most-seen of the 107 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November to March
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch in Sendai on a given day, against under 5% in May, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Long-tailed Rosefinch sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Long-tailed Rosefinch sightings, Sendai ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia, about 50%) and Novosibirsk (Russia, about 20%).
Same family: Fringillidae
The closest relatives of the Long-tailed Rosefinch that you can see in Sendai (family Fringillidae, Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) are Oriental Greenfinch (about 70%), Hawfinch (about 40%) and Eurasian Siskin (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-tailed Rosefinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Sendai (124 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
