Birds of the World

    PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae (Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches)  
Genus: Montifringilla (3 species)


Black-winged Snowfinch
Black-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi)
Range: PAL: sc Palearctic in Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe near water, villages: Ladakh (nw India) through w Tibet, in s to n Nepal and n Sikkim; ne Qinghai, w Gansu s to e Tibet and sc Sichuan
Borit, Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan  
 
Photograph by Imran Shah     Copyright and usage info


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Tibetan Snowfinch (Montifringilla henrici)
Range: PAL: sc Palearctic in alpine steppe: ne Qinghai s to sc Tibet
 



White-winged Snowfinch
White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis)
Range: PAL: sw, c Palearctic in rocky alpine barrens, meadows, buildings: n Spain, s France to Austria, Corsica, Balkans and Greece, s, e Turkey, Caucasus to sw Russia, s, nw Iran, c, e Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and se Kazakhstan through Xinjiang (nw China)
Tam, France  
 
Photograph by Pierre Dalous     Copyright and usage info



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