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 LC    White-winged Grosbeak* Id (Atlas):
    Mycerobas carnipes

Description (10)
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Family
Fringillidae (Finches)

Size
21.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hodgson, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland. From 2,800 - 4,600 m, occasionallydown to 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of], Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B) (NB), Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (Asian), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Vagrant to Russia (Central Asian).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (62)...)

 
White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes) [XC282729]
     by Ali Alieslam from Erlang, Sichuan, China (call)

 
White-winged Grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes) [XC491338]
     by from Beishan National Forest Park, Qinghai, China (call)

Subspecies
Geographical variation slight and clinal, with a certain increase in size and in plumage darkness moving from west to east. Birds from Kashka-suu, in northern Kyrgyzstan, described as subspecies merzbacheri, but differences from nominate considered trivial and synonymized with latter.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • speculigerus (von Brandt, JF, 1841)   -  Northern and north-eastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan east to north-western and east-central Afghanistan and western Pakistan (Baluchistan).
  • carnipes (Hodgson, 1836)   -  Eastern and south-eastern Kazakhstan (Dzhungarian Alatau and Tien Shan) south to eastern Uzbekistan, north-eastern Afghanistan and Tajikistan, west, central and southern China (south-western Xinjiang; southern Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and north-eastern Qinghai south to south-eastern Xizang, north-western Yunnan, southern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi), and Himalayas from northern Pakistan east to north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh) and northern Myanmar.
  • merzbacheri Schalow, 1908   -  Eastern Kazakhstan and north-western China.



References
See References.


Files:
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