English: Pallas’s Rosefinch, Siberian Rosefinch           
Russian: Сибирская чечевица     
Mongolian: Ягаан бужмар
German: Rosengimpel     
French: Roselin rose            
Japanese: オオマシコ (O-mashiko)

Body length: 16-17 cm
Wing span: 25-27 cm

Winter visitor & passage migrant
Breeding season: May - August

Egg number: 3-6
Egg colour: Glossy light blue with purplish-black spots, streaks
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Insects, other terrestrial invertebrates and seeds of various plants. 

Habitat: Breeding habitats are thickets and dense shrubs on upper limits of mountain taiga forests. From early to mid-November, they move down to forest steppe, river valley and mountains with trees and bushes. They occur in pairs or small flocks and feed on seeds of plants on the ground in winter in Mongolia. Sometimes, they are found on mountain slopes with rocks and cliffs with tall bushes and shrubs in the steppe.