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Pyrrhoplectes epauletta
Diet
Plants and seeds (SoIB guild)
Habitat
Temperate forest
Range
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal
The golden-naped finch is a finch in the monotypic genus Pyrrhoplectes, found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal. Its natural habitat is temperate forest (Wikipedia, general species account).
The cached account is short and gives no description, measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 treats it as a Himalayan endemic and rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant forest bird that eats plants and seeds, with a Restricted range of about 18,000 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).