Common Rosefinch

Rosefinch ( Carpodacus erythrinus )

Description

The Common Rosefinch is up to 15 centimeters long and weighs about 20 to 25 grams. When out colored male head, chest and rump have a characteristic ruby color. Females and males in the second calendar year are oberseits dull olive-brown with two narrow, rust beige wing-bars. Young birds look similar, but are more intense and olive brown with pronounced rust beige wing-bars and shield spring peaks. The belly is whitish, dark eyes and the beak vigorously.

The call sounds soft " wüh " or " djü " and is somewhat reminiscent of that of the green compact. The song is catchy, oriole -like fluting and falling at the end. The song is usually performed by an elevated vantage point. The females can sing.

Habitat

The Rosefinch inhabits a variety of habitats. The populations in Central Europe breed mostly in semi-open landscapes or sparse trees with a well-trained shrub and herb layer: eg possible Au and swamp forests, deciduous and mixed forests and glades, tree and shrub groups in rainy moors, siltation zones; but in addition also drier sites with shrub growth, partly in park-like landscapes, at the edges of settlements or in mountain meadows.

The eastern populations ( Asia) are commonly found in city parks and come here to the upper edge of the tree line, while the north-western populations ( Finland, Sweden) have their focus in deciduous forests.

Of relevance is a lush, diverse vegetation are in all cases a well-trained bushes structure and, if possible (hence often occurring in humid places ).

Behavior

The Common Rosefinch is the breeding season territorial, but the birds behave discreetly ( no nest defense, often the absence of males ). Maybe so the conspicuity and the risk of nest loss should be avoided. The Common Rosefinch is diurnal.

Reproduction

The species often nest in groups. The nest is low, built well hidden in thick bushes. The breeding season extends from early June to July. The female usually lays four to six dark blue, dunkelgefleckte eggs and incubates eleven to 14 days. The female is doing little fed by the male. After 12 to 13 days, the young birds fledge.

Nutrition

The Rosefinch lives mainly vegetable, with seeds and buds of shrubs and deciduous trees dominate. The food of the nestlings is predominantly vegetable. Animal food makes up only a small portion and includes spiders, caterpillars, beetles, etc., with an emphasis in June.

Distribution area, hiking

The distribution area of Karmingimpels extends from Kamchatka along the Pacific coast in the east to central Europe in the west, in the south patchy to the mountain systems of the Caucasus, the Altai and the Himalayas.

The Common Rosefinch is long-distance migrant ( in the eastern populations also means distance migrants ) with main wintering grounds in northern and central India to Southeast China. The breeding birds of Europe reach their winter quarters by Eastern and subsequent Südostzug, which so far are hardly known details. Breeding birds of Asia Minor may overwinter already in Iran. Young birds may initially in the fall also to the northwest across the area also hike (up in the North Sea Region ). Some seasonal late as early observations in Central Europe may hang together in Africa, and Western Asia with the emergence of new wintering areas. The departure takes place in Central Europe immediately after fledging of the boys from the middle of July, individual birds remain until around the end of August. The return to the western breeding areas is usually relatively constant: the older males 15 to 20 May younger males and females a little later. The Common Rosefinch is thus one of the latest incident in Central Europe migratory species. The breeding site fidelity is usually highly developed.

The spread of West Karmingimpels to Central Europe is related to a meeting that since the 1930s propagation wave, which is, however, locally vary. The spread of West Karmingimpels is still dynamic and again subjected to a stagnation or a decline, in part since the early 1990s.

Status in Germany

The Common Rosefinch is in the current Red List of birds breeding in Germany counted among the regularly breeding species of birds with a stock 470-520 pairs (reference year 2005). So that the manner falls in the frequency class " very rare"; of the Common Rosefinch is, however, currently ( as ) not in a risk category of the Red List due to the spread situation in Central Europe.