Carpodacus sibiricus
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
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 |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch sighting in Ulaanbaatar on a given day, based on 78 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 9th most-seen of the 63 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and April
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch in Ulaanbaatar on a given day, against about 30% in January, March and May, the lowest months. Those are among Ulaanbaatar's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain a month against 70 mm in July.
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.
Yes
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Long-tailed Rosefinch sightings, Ulaanbaatar has the highest daily chance: about 50%. Next come Novosibirsk (Russia, about 20%) and Sendai (Japan, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-tailed Rosefinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Ulaanbaatar (78 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.
