This Himalayan rosefinch is raspberry-pink in males and mainly brown in females. It uses subalpine habitats in the breeding season and descends to foothills in winter.
The male is bright raspberry-pink with a clear brow pattern. The female is brown, with a broad white eyebrow and streaked buff underparts.
During breeding it favors subalpine forest edges and grassy hillsides with scrub. In winter it descends to similar foothill habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.