The rufous-necked snowfinch (Pyrgilauda ruficollis) is a species of bird in the sparrow family.

Adults have black lores and whitish faces except for their chestnut or reddish-brown rear ear-coverts and sides of neck.

They also have evolved a higher rate of metabolism than most other birds, a better tolerance of low temperatures, and a greater capacity for moving.

When breeding season is over, it is more likely to be found in small flocks, when it ranges over a wide variety of mountainous terrain in company of other finches like Blanford's snowfinches.

It is naturally found in Tibet and adjacent areas of central and western China, in the alpine temperate grassland and barren stony steppes and plateaus; it winters south to Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, sometimes to lower altitudes.