Grey-crowned Goldfinch

The grey-crowned goldfinch, also known as the eastern, Himalayan or grey-capped goldfinch, is a small finch distributed throughout Central Asia and the Himalaya, 10.5–14 cm long with a wingspan of 21.5–25.5 cm and weighing about 15–21 g. The male has brighter and more extensive red on the face and brighter yellow on the wing than the female, the only notable difference between the sexes, and both have a pinkish bill; the juvenile lacks the red in the face, has faint streaking on the breast and buffish tips to the coverts and tertials (Wikipedia, general species account).

It occupies open and sparse deciduous woodland, mixed deciduous and conifer woods, forest edges at 2,100–3,600 m, orchards and often parks and gardens, usually foraging on the ground and forming flocks in autumn and winter. The song is a rather chaffinch-like combination of pleasant bubbling and twittering, without the tinkling notes of the European goldfinch, and the calls include twittering deedelit and chirik (Wikipedia, general species account).