Finches (Fringillidae)
Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus) - HBW 15, p. 580
French: Roselin à longue queue
German: Meisengimpel
Spanish: Camachuelo Colilargo
Other common names: Siberian Rosefinch
Taxonomy: Loxia sibirica Pallas, 1773, "near montane rivers and streams of southern Siberia".
Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sibiricus ( Pallas, 1773) - breeds SW & SC Siberia E to middle R Amur, S to NE Kazakhstan, N Mongolia and NW & NE China (NW Xinjiang; NW Inner Mongolia); winters SC & SE Russia, E Kazakhstan (Tarbagatay, Dzhungarian Alatau, E Tien Shan) and NW & NC China.
- ussuriensis Buturlin, 1915 - breeds Russian Far East (middle R Amur E to Ussuriland) and NE China (Heilongjiang and Jilin); winters in Korea and E China (Liaoning S to Hebei and Shanxi, also S Gansu).
- sanguinolentus ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) - breeds Sakhalin I, S Kurils and N Japan (Hokkaido, N Honshu); winters C & S Japan.
- sibiricus ( Pallas, 1773) - breeds SW & SC Siberia E to middle R Amur, S to NE Kazakhstan, N Mongolia and NW & NE China (NW Xinjiang; NW Inner Mongolia); winters SC & SE Russia, E Kazakhstan (Tarbagatay, Dzhungarian Alatau, E Tien Shan) and NW & NC China.
- ussuriensis Buturlin, 1915 - breeds Russian Far East (middle R Amur E to Ussuriland) and NE China (Heilongjiang and Jilin); winters in Korea and E China (Liaoning S to Hebei and Shanxi, also S Gansu).
- sanguinolentus ( Temminck & Schlegel, 1848) - breeds Sakhalin I, S Kurils and N Japan (Hokkaido, N Honshu); winters C & S Japan.
- lepidus David & Oustalet, 1877 - C China ( E Xizang E to S Shaanxi and SW Shanxi).
- henrici Oustalet, 1892 - S China (SE Xizang, N Sichuan and W & NW Yunnan).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A nest with eggs with an adult female entering to incubate them. Locality Razdolnaya River Estuary, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2009 3 years ago 27 sec 4.3 -
A female entering the nest to incubate. Locality Razdolnaya River Estuary, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2009 3 years ago 44 sec 4 -
Female bird eating seeds on reeds. Locality Kabutoyama Forest Park, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Charles McHugh 26 January 2009 4 years ago 32 sec 4 -
Male bird feeding on reed. Locality Kabutoyama Forest Park, Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Charles McHugh 27 January 2009 4 years ago 21 sec 3.7 -
A female plumaged individual on a branch calling softly, then flying away. Locality Paktusova Island, Peter the Great Bay, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 22 June 2009 2 years ago 41 sec 3.5 -
A perched female calling softly and then going down to the ground and eating seeds. Locality Ilistay River, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 7 June 2009 3 years ago 42 sec 3.2
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Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus) male Locality Kyshtym, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Western Russia, Russia
Maxim S. Shveikin 11 March 2012 1 year ago 4 -
a male hiding in a thicket Locality Kangding County, Sichuan, China (Northern)
Zhou Huaming 8 March 2009 3 years ago 3.5 -
A male perched on a plant.
Locality Japan (ssp sanguinolentus)
Pete Morris 1 February 2002 15 weeks ago 3.3 -
Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus) female Locality Kyshtym, Chelyabinskaya Oblast, Western Russia, Russia
Maxim S. Shveikin 11 March 2012 1 year ago 3.3 -
Bird cleaning feathers. Locality Plzen Zoo, Plzen, Plzen Region, Czech Republic (ssp sibiricus)
Tomasz Doroń 24 October 2011 1 year ago 3 -
A female plumaged individual on a branch.
Locality Paktusova Island, Peter the Great Bay, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 22 June 2009 2 years ago 3
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Low calls by a female plumaged individual (among grasshoppers). Locality Paktusova Island, Peter the Great Bay, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 22 June 2009 18 weeks ago 3 -
Calls by a female. Locality Ilistay River, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp ussuriensis)
Josep del Hoyo 7 June 2009 18 weeks ago 3
