The name Black-Winged Snowfinch a bird in the sparrow family is also knows as the Adams’s Snowfinch. It is a common resident of the tibetan plateau ranging heights from 4200 to 5100 meters in the summer it comes down to an altitude ranging from 2500 to 3500 meters in the winters.

They are often found picking food on open stony hillsides or plateau but also come near villages for picking grains and any food particles they can find. As the name suggest had dark wings almost black and an orange beak.

@HANLE, LADAKH, INDIA.

SEPTEMBER 2022

With Ameet Pradhan, Ajit Shaligram, Rahulsingh Birdguide, Lokeshkumar Birder, Phunchoktsering