The national bird of Jordan, the Sinai rose finch is a long-tailed, small-billed finch. The males have a pink face and breast with a whitish forehead and crown.
These birds are found in sandstone cliffs and rocky slopes. Oddly distributed, their presence is recorded on the Middle East, in the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan and further east in central China.
The diet of a Sinai rose finch primarily consists of seeds of shrubs and herbs such as wormwood. It needs a lot of water, as the bird is known to drink as many as 30 times during hot weather. Not very fond of the heat, it prefers to stay under the shade when the sun blazes in the sky.
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