The 2013 KAIYODO Pallas's Rosefinch walkaround

For his Japanese animals 2013 set, KAIYODO produced two birds. I already made a walkaround of the Great White-fronted goose. Now it's time for the Pallas's Rosefinch model.

The Pallas's Rosefinch (Carpodacus roseus) is a species of bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is found in China, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Russia. Birds are occasionally reported from further west and there are records from several European countries, including Britain, but the cage-bird trade makes the origin of some such birds hard to assess. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and boreal shrubland.

The true finches are passerine birds. They are predominantly seed-eating birds. A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders; with over 5,000 identified species, it has roughly twice as many species as the largest of the mammal orders, the Rodentia.

And now a few pics