Animals by Scientific Class Names

Rough-billed Green Pigeon，Treron curvirostra，Thick-billed Green Pigeon

Features：The bill is short and thick, pale yellowish green or lead white

Thick-billed Green Pigeon, also known as Thick-billed Green Pigeon, has 9 subspecies.Thick-billed Green Pigeon is fond of eating the fruits of banyan trees, so it often appears in fruit trees, especially banyan trees. Places with abundant old banyan trees often attract a large number of Thick-billed...

Gray-headed green pigeon, Gray-headed mountain pigeon，Treron pompadora，Pompadour Green-pigeon

Features：The back of the neck to the upper back is dark green, and the lower back and shoulders are dark purple chestnut, forming a wide "V"

Grey-headed green pigeons are called Pompadour Green-pigeon in foreign language, and there are 8 subspecies.Grey-headed green pigeons like to live in lowland evergreen rainforests in small or large groups. They often visit saline land. They often move in groups, starting to move and forage after day...

Red-breasted Green Pigeon, Orange-breasted Pigeon, Yellow-breasted Green Pigeon，Treron bicinctus，Orange-breasted Green-pigeon

Features：A wide reddish-purple band runs across the upper chest, followed by another wider brownish-orange band.

Orange-breasted Green-pigeon has four subspecies.Orange-breasted Green-pigeon is mainly a resident bird, usually alone or in small groups of 5-6, and sometimes mixed with other birds. It is most active in the morning and evening. Likes to live on the top branches of dead trees. Its call is a beautif...

Brown-headed cuckoo dove, Lesser red cuckoo dove，Macropygia ruficeps，Little Cuckoo-dove

Features：Has a brown head

Little Cuckoo-dove is called Little Cuckoo-dove in English, and there are 8 subspecies.Little Cuckoo-dove is a resident bird, usually moving in groups. It moves calmly, and always stays for a while before taking off when it encounters danger. It has a low voice. It mainly feeds on plant fruits, seed...

Sacalia bealei,Beal's eyed turtle,Spotted turtle

Features：There is usually a pair of eye-shaped spots on the back of the head, with 1-3 black spots in the center.

The spotted turtle is aquatic, mainly living in streams with slow and clear water flow and gravel bottom in hilly areas below 400 meters above sea level. It is timid and will retract its head, tail and limbs into its shell or run around aimlessly when disturbed. It likes to bask in the sun, and the...

Geoemyda spengleri,Black－breatsed Leaf Turtle,Golden turtle, twelve-horned turtle, maple leaf turtle, black-breasted leaf turtle, twelve-winged turtle

Features：They eat small amounts and grow slowly.

The ground tortoise lives in the shaded and moist areas near streams in the mountain jungle at an altitude of about 700 meters, and is also often found in streams. It is terrestrial or semi-aquatic and cannot enter deep waters. The understory trees, vines and bamboos in its habitat are abundant, and...

Cuora,Broken plate turtle, snake turtle, snake-claw turtle, Asian box turtle

Features：The plastron can be completely closed to the carapace

The genus Cuora (scientific name: Cuora) is a genus of Testudinata, Testudinidae, commonly known as box turtles. They are distributed in the Yangtze River and all places south of it in my country. Common ones include golden-headed box turtles, yellow-margined box turtles, three-lined box turtles, Yu...

Mauremys mutica,Stone turtle, stone golden coin turtle, water turtle, yellow turtle, fragrant turtle

Features：The individual is medium-sized, flat and oval in shape, with a small head. The back of the head is smooth and scaleless, yellow or yellow-olive in color, and the ventral side of the head and throat are yellow, hence the name.

The yellow-throated water turtle lives in the waters of hilly areas, mountain basins in semi-mountainous areas, and river valleys. Sometimes it also often moves in bushes and rice fields. During the day, it mostly plays and forages in the water. On sunny days, it likes to be on land, and sometimes c...

Mauremys sinensis,Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle,Ocadia sinensis Gray，1834,Chinese turtle, spotted turtle, pearl turtle, long-tailed turtle, Taiwan turtle

Features：The head is small, with a tapered snout that protrudes beyond the tip of the beak.

The flower turtle is an aquatic turtle. It is water-loving and has the habit of going ashore to bask in the sun. When the temperature is above 25℃ and the weather is fine and sunny, the flower turtle likes to climb onto the terrace or the shore to bask in the sun. The flower turtle has a wide adapt...

Mauremys nigricans,Red-necked pond turtle,Painted turtle, black-necked painted turtle, three-lined turtle, Guangdong grass turtle, black-necked terrapin

Features：They like warmth and are afraid of cold. They have a gentle temperament and will not hurt others on their own initiative.

The black-necked turtle is large in size and lives in streams in subtropical hilly and mountainous forests. The black-necked turtle moves clumsily, crawls slowly, has a gentle temperament, and does not actively hurt people. The black-necked turtle likes warmth and is afraid of cold. It cannot live i...

Cyclemys oldhamii,Snake-catching turtle, snake-catch turtle, snake-killing turtle

Features：Darker body color

The European turtle is a wild animal of the order Testudinata and family Geochelone. In the wild, it often hides near dead trees to look for insects. The juveniles are closer to water turtles, but cannot go into deep water....

Testudo horsfieldii,Afghan Tortoise Central Asian Tortoise Four-toed Tortoise Horsfield's Tortoise Steppe Tortoise,Land turtle, taspaha, prairie tortoise, land tortoise, turtle

Features：The four-clawed tortoise is the only tortoise that lives in the desert grasslands of my country.

In the Yili River Valley in Xinjiang, China, there is a small creature called "Tasipaka". "Tasipaka" means "stone" and "Paka" means "toad". What kind of animal is this stone-like toad? It is the four-clawed tortoise, which is listed as "critical...

Pied coffee chase，Macropygia unchall，Barred Cuckoo-dove

Features：A large, long-tailed turtle with black or brown markings on its back and tail

Barred Cuckoo-dove has three subspecies.Cuckoo doves are resident birds, partially wandering. Usually in pairs, occasionally alone, rarely in groups. Land with your tail up. Action is calm, not afraid of people, do not fly away immediately after seeing people, always stay and look at each other for...

Columba punicea，Pale-capped Pigeon

Features：It is a medium sized tawny and grey pigeon

The foreign name of the purple forest Pigeon is Pale-capped Pigeon, no subspecies.Purple pigeons often live alone or in pairs. Occasionally in small groups, sexually active, fast and powerful flight. It mainly feeds on berries, figs and other plant fruits and seeds, and also eats crop seeds. It ofte...

Wood pigeon, common wood pigeon，Columba palumbus，Green Imperial-pigeon

Features：Similar in size to the wild pigeon, the body is gray, with a white collar, and the wings have white stripes

There are 6 subspecies of Green Imperial pigeon. Columba palumbus casiotis (Columba palumbus casiotis) is the only one in China. It is found in Kashgar and Tianshan Mountains in western Xinjiang. Rare resident bird.Zebra pigeons like to travel in groups, especially during the non-breeding season. Te...

Pale-backed Pigeon,Columba eversmanni

Features：It resembles a European dove, but has a white back

The Central Asian Pigeon is known as Pale-backed Pigeon and has no subspecies. Central Asian pigeons Often live alone or in pairs. Occasionally in small groups, sexually active, fast and powerful flight. It mainly feeds on berries, figs and other plant fruits and seeds, and also eats crop seeds. It...

Black-necked grebe, tranche board，Podiceps nigricollis，Black-necked Grebe, Grèbe à cou noir

Features：The wing color is fiery red, the neck is black, and the overall plumage distribution color difference is particularly obvious

The Black-necked Grebe, with 4 subspecies, is a medium-sized water bird.Similarly, the horned grebe has a straight mouth and a flat forehead; The front neck and chest of the summer feather are red, and the feathers behind the eyes are not fanned out but in a family shape. The winter feather below th...

Podiceps auritus,Horned Grebe

Features：Starting from the front of the eyes to the back of the eyes, there is a cluster of golden chestnut feathers on each side extending to the back of the head, forming a double horn shape, hence the name.

Horned Grebe has two subspecies.Horned Grebes move in small groups in winter. It breeds in freshwater areas throughout the northern temperate zone. Parent birds often carry their chicks on their backs when swimming. In winter, it disperses to the south of about 30° north latitude, including coastal...

Manouria impressa,Impressed Tortoise, Kirin tortoise

Features：As the name suggests, the carapace is flat and even concave in the middle, forming a groove with three horizontal lines.

Concave-shelled tortoise lives in tropical and subtropical mountainous areas. Adults live on the banks of mountain streams, and young turtles can climb up to the banks and lie horizontally on tree trunks to bask in the sun. They live far away from water and have a narrow distribution area. They feed...

Indotestudo elongata,Elongated Tortoise,Yellow elephant turtle, pillow turtle, dry turtle, Burma land, dragon claw turtle and so on

Features：Big eyes, short neck, high back and long nails.

Burmese tortoises are subtropical terrestrial tortoises, living in mountains, hills and bush forests, active at night, warm and afraid of cold. Docile, spiritual, mainly herbivorous, but also eat animal food, can feed melons, fruits, vegetables, lean meat, etc., like to eat tomatoes. The optimum te...

Platysternon megacephalum，Big-headed Turtle，Hawk-billed turtle, big-headed flat-chested turtle, eagle turtle, etc

Features：The body is flat, the head is large, and it cannot be shrunk into the shell.

Flat chest turtle like Yin fear of high temperature, fierce temperament, rock climbing and tree climbing ability is very strong. It lives mainly in the clear streams of the mountains. It also appears in swamps, pools, rivers and fields, generally at night, can climb stone walls or trees, and can cli...