Pyrgilauda davidiana
In 3 days ~10%
Père David's snowfinch (Pyrgilauda davidiana), also known as the small snowfinch, is a species of bird in the sparrow family. It is found in Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
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Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Small Snowfinch sighting in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 117th most-seen of the 122 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Small Snowfinch in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–July, September and December, the lowest months. January–April and October–November have too few records to rate.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Small Snowfinch sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 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 Small Snowfinch sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Passeridae
The closest relatives of the Small Snowfinch that you can see in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (family Passeridae, Old World Sparrows) are White-winged Snowfinch (about 60%), Rock Petronia (about 50%) and Eurasian Tree Sparrow (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Small Snowfinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park (10 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.
