Carpodacus sibiricus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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 |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch sighting in Yekaterinburg on a given day, based on 49 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 43rd most-seen of the 116 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch in Yekaterinburg on a given day, against under 5% in March–May and July–August, the lowest months. That is one of Yekaterinburg's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain against 90 mm in June.
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.
4th of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Long-tailed Rosefinch sightings, Yekaterinburg ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia, about 50%), 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 Yekaterinburg (49 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.
