Carpodacus davidianus
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Chinese beautiful rosefinch (Carpodacus davidianus) is a true finch species (family Fringillidae). It is one of the rosefinches that might belong in the genus Propasser. It is found in China and Mongolia. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
The Chinese beautiful rosefinch, Himalayan beautiful rosefinch and a subspecies of pink-rumped rosefinch (C. w. waltoni) were considered conspecific, called "beautiful rosefinch" (C. pulcherrimus). While the phylogenetic relationship among rosefinches was reconstructed in a 2013 study, two mitochondrial genes and two nuclear genes were used. It revealed that C. p. waltoni is closer to C. eos, and has now been merged into the same species, pink-rumped rosefinch, and its scientific name changed to C. waltoni. While the Chinese beautiful rosefinch and Himalayan beautiful rosefinch were split into two different species, the former was named C. davidianus, and the latter has the scientific name C. pulcherrimus of "beautiful rosefinch". After the taxonomic revision, the Chinese beautiful rosefinch is a monotypic species.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
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Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch sighting in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, based on 136 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 17th most-seen of the 122 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, against about 30% in July–September and December, the lowest months. January–April and October–November have too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chinese Beautiful 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.
Only Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park, in our data
Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Carpodacus
The closest relatives of the Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch that you can see in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (genus Carpodacus, Typical Rosefinches) are Common Rosefinch (about 30%) and Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chinese Beautiful Rosefinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (136 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
