LONG-TAILED ROSE FINCH
Long-tailed Rose Finch Uragus sibiricus
breeds southern Siberia east to Sakhalin, Japan, China & SE Tibet.
Record from Finland: 25th-27th April 1989 and others in Europe are rightly or wrongly believed to be escapes. A considerable range expansion has taken place, see:
V. K. RYABITSEV AND M. G. WILSON British Birds 92: 498-503, October 1999, download here:
https://britishbirds.co.uk/article/range-extension-of-long-tailed-rosefinch-into-western-palearctic/
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