Carpodacus sibiricus
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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 |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch sighting in Nikko National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 89th most-seen of the 102 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-tailed Rosefinch in Nikko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in December to October, the lowest months.
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.
Only Nikko National Park, in our data
Nikko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Long-tailed Rosefinch sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Fringillidae
The closest relatives of the Long-tailed Rosefinch that you can see in Nikko National Park (family Fringillidae, Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) are Japanese Grosbeak (about 20%), Oriental Greenfinch (about 20%) and Brambling (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 Nikko National Park (8 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.
