White-rumped Snowfinch

When to see the White-rumped Snowfinch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-rumped Snowfinch

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Nepal.

About the White-rumped Snowfinch

The white-rumped snowfinch is a species of passerine bird in the sparrow family Passeridae. It is the only member of the genus Onychostruthus. It is sometimes placed in the genus Montifringilla.

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Easily confused with

Shelley's SparrowPasser shelleyiShelley's sparrow, also known as Shelley's rufous sparrow or the White Nile rufous sparrow, is a sparrow found in eastern Africa from South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and north-western Somalia to northern Uganda and north-western Kenya. Desert SparrowPasser simplexThe desert sparrow is a species of bird in the sparrow family Passeridae, found in the Sahara Desert of northern Africa. Rufous-necked SnowfinchPyrgilauda ruficollisThese birds are around 15cm and are very distinctive in their zone.