Pale Rockfinch

When to see the Pale Rockfinch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pale Rockfinch

The map shades 17 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Pakistan.

About the Pale Rockfinch

The pale rockfinch or pale rock sparrow is a small sparrow found in the Middle East and Central Asia. It is the only member of the genus Carpospiza. Some authorities include it in the genus Petronia. Others have placed it in the finch family due to some similarities in behaviour and form, but the anatomy of its tongue exhibits characteristic sparrow features.

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Easily confused with

Sind SparrowPasser pyrrhonotusThe Sind sparrow is very similar to the house sparrow, and both sexes resemble their counterparts of that species, but it is slightly smaller and males and females each have features that distinguish them as Sind sparrows. Iago SparrowPasser iagoensisThe Iago sparrow is a small sparrow, 12.5–13 centimetres (4.9–5.1 in) long, with a wing length of 5.5–6.9 centimetres (2.2–2.7 in). Sudan Golden SparrowPasser luteusThe Sudan golden sparrow is a smaller sparrow, at 12–13 cm (4.5–5 in) in length, with a wingspan of 5.7–7 cm (2.2–2.8 in).