Meet The Pink-Browed Rosefinch: The Flying Little Balls Of Cotton Candy
Is it a raspberry? Is it cotton candy?
Meet the pink-browed rosefinch (Carpodacus rodochroa), a graceful finch in the family Fringillidae.
The male bird of the species has a bright, raspberry-pink plumage, with clean ‘brows’ and faint streaks on its back.
The female is more of a brown colour, with white eyebrows and light streaks on her cheeks and throat.
The bird can be found in the Himalayahs.
It prefers to live in forests, hillsides, and tropical high-altitude shrubland.
The bird has a diet of seeds, berries, grasses, and small herbs.
The female finch builds a nest about two metres above the ground during the breeding seasons, made from bark, moss and animal hair.
Meet The Stunning Blue-Banded Pitta: A Colorful Jewel of the Forest
There are some really special-looking birds out there, amazing plumages and some lavish color schemes, it’s hard to believe they are all real!
This bird is truly something special.
Meet the blue-banded pitta, a highly decorated songbird from southeast Asia.
This charismatic bird which...see more
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