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Rosefinch should be really included in the thematic group Turkey 2. These few documentary pictures  were taken in Turkey. When I began selecting a few thousand photos that I brought from Turkey, there were some pictures of hard to identify species. These were put aside for later identification, not to interfere with the main task of classifying “Turkey – 2” photos. Having done that I finally had time to concentrate on those unidentified pictures. The bird turned out to be a rosefinch. The Rosefinch occurs in Europe and Asia. Its migration is quite unusual, because it is directed to southern Asia, and not as most birds, to Africa. Body weight is about 20 grams, with a wingspan of about 25 cm. The male finch has a blood - red head unlike the female, colored in shades of brown (in this picture).
Last minute news-07/2015
To the only documentary picture of a common rosefinch female was complemented with photographs of a male and a female, and of good quality. Unfortunately we ran out of time and the light was too intense to take more interesting photos. On this day, actually this morning, the time was divided between shooting the spotted crake and the common rosefinch. Well, maybe not quite, because I was able to photograph a young water rails, a Eurasian penduline tits and a common whitethroat. There was progress in the common rosefinch gallery construction.
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