Asian crimson-winged finch

Morphology

Differences between African and Asian birds

• African birds have a rosy-tinged grey-white central chin and throat, with a narrow brown breast-band below it, whereas this whole area is solidly tawny-brown on Asian birds.
• The brown breast and flank markings on Asian birds are more extensive than on African birds.
• African birds have less black on the crown than Asian birds.

• Asian birds have extensive pink in their uppertail-coverts, which is lacking in African birds.
• Asian birds often have black spotting on their breast-sides; African birds always lack this.
• Asian birds can have distinct black markings on their mantle, but these are much less distinct on African birds.
• Asian birds have on average more distinct black markings on their ear-coverts than African birds.
• Asian birds typically have more extensive red in their face, often in the fore-supercilium.