Yellow-breasted Greenfinch

The yellow-breasted greenfinch is a small passerine of the finch family native to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, 12–14 cm long and 15–21 g, with a brown conical bill, bright yellow wing bars and bright yellow underparts. The sexes have similar plumage, but the female is less brightly coloured. It occurs primarily in the mid-altitudes of the Himalaya and in parts of Southeast Asia, across Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam, in temperate forest and temperate shrubland (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 treats it as a Himalayan endemic and rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant of non-specialised habitat that eats plants and seeds, with a Moderate range of about 115,000 km² and a decline of about 45% over the long term (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).