Mongolian Finch

The Mongolian finch, also called the Mongolian trumpeter finch, is a small, long-winged bird with a large head and a short, thick, greyish-yellow bill. In breeding plumage males have a pink flush to the face and underparts and extensive white and pink areas in the wings, a pattern also present but less marked in non-breeding plumage. Females have fainter, almost unnoticeable pink. Outside the breeding season it is fairly quiet; calls are rising nasal notes and chirrups, and the song is a jumbled series of the same notes. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It is a resident bird, found from eastern Turkey across the Caucasus and east into Central Asia to western China and Mongolia, and south into Kashmir. Mountainous areas of stony desert, semi-arid scrub and rocky slopes are favoured for breeding. It is native to many countries across this belt, including Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, India, Nepal, Russia, Turkey and Uzbekistan, and has occurred as a vagrant in Bahrain. (Wikipedia, general species account)