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Common Rosefinch

Carpodacus erythrinusOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Finches (Fringillidae)

Common Rosefinch Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Common Rosefinch: Small, stocky finch with red upperparts and breast, faintly streaked brown back, and white underparts. Bill is dark gray and stout. Wings and tail are dark brown. Female is brown-streaked and gray overall.

Range and Habitat

Common Rosefinch: Occurs in the western Aleutians and Alaska. Preferred habitats include scrubby areas, especially near water and often near human habitation.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"chEEro-VEEcheeo"

Interesting Facts

 First-year birds tend to disperse further than adults which explains why colonizing birds are almost always dull-plumaged (young) males.

 A group of rosefinches are collectively known as a "bouquet" of finches.



Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Carpodacus erythrinus
Length5.75 Inches
Wingspan9.5 Inches

Common Rosefinch

Common Rosefinch: Small, stocky finch, red upperparts and breast, faintly streaked brown back, white underparts. Bill is dark gray and stout. Wings and tail are dark brown. Legs and feet are gray-brown. Forages on ground and in trees and shrubs for seeds and insects. Bounding flight.

● Song: "chEEro-VEEcheeo"

● Foraging & Feeding: Common Rosefinch: Eats seeds and insects in summer and mostly seeds in winter; forages on the ground or in shrubs and trees.

● Breeding & nesting: Common Rosefinch: Three to six light blue green eggs flecked with brown at larger end are laid in a nest made of grass and stems, lined with rootlets and hair, and built low in a bush or tree, less than 3 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Common Rosefinch: Purple Finch has red over most of body and pale bill.

Flight Pattern

Bounding flight on rapidly beating wings alternating with brief periods of wings drawn to sides.
Common Rosefinch Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Common Rosefinch: Occurs in the western Aleutians and Alaska. Preferred habitats include scrubby areas, especially near water and often near human habitation.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationRare
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.8 Ounces