Animals by Scientific Class Names

Nine-color bird，Lophophorus impejanus

Features：The image is very beautiful, especially the colorful male bird

The foreign name of the brown-tailed rainbow pheasant is Himalayan Monal, and there is no subspecies.The brown-tailed rainbow pheasant often moves in groups, and sometimes forms a large group of 20-30 in winter. The natural conditions there are very harsh. The whole summer is almost always spent in...

Willow leaf chicken, tricky chicken，Pucrasia macrolopha，Koklass Pheasant

Features：The willow-shaped feathers are like blood, the long crest feathers on the top of the head are erected, and the back of the neck is covered with golden feathers.

The Koklass Pheasant has 10 subspecies.Male and female spoonbills move alone or in pairs. They are alert and rarely form groups. They also spend the night in pairs on tree branches. The male likes to call in the early morning and evening. Its hoarse voice is like that of a drake, so it is called &qu...

Horned chicken, turkey, longevity chicken，Tragopan caboti，Cabot's Tragopan，Yellow-billed Tragopan

Features：A bird native to China, considered the "giant panda among birds"

The foreign name of the yellow-bellied tragopan is Cabot's Tragopan, and there are 2 subspecies.The yellow-bellied tragopan is good at hiding and running. It often moves in dense undergrowth and grass under the forest. It generally does not take off unless it has to. They often move in small gro...

Shou chicken, red chicken, baby chicken，Tragopan temminckii，Temminck's tragopan

Features：The difference from the red-breasted tragopan is that the grayish-white spots on the lower body are larger and do not have a black outer edge.

The foreign name of the red-bellied tragopan is Temminck's tragopan, and there is no subspecies.The red-bellied tragopan likes to act alone, but occasionally forms small groups in winter. It mainly feeds on the tender shoots, leaves, green leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds of trees, shrubs, bamb...

Longevity chicken, gray-spotted pheasant，Tragopan blythii，Blyth's Tragopan，Grey-bellied Tragopan

Features：The most endangered species in the genus Tragopan

The Blyth's Tragopan is called Blyth's Tragopan in English, and has two subspecies.The Blyth's Tragopan is alert by nature, good at running, and generally rarely flies. When frightened, they often run fast or hide in dense forests and bushes, and only fly away when they have to. But the...

Chaffinch，Tragopan satyra，Satyr Tragopan，Crimson Horned-pheasant，Indian Tragopan

Features：A gorgeous crimson tragopan native to the Himalayas.

The foreign name of the red-breasted tragopan is Satyr Tragopan, and there is no subspecies.The red-breasted tragopan mainly forages in the early morning and dusk, and likes to hide. Most of the time, it hides in the deep mountains and dense forests where few people go. It is cautious in its movemen...

Western Tragopan，Tragopan melanocephalus，Western Tragopan，Black-headed Tragopan，Western Horned-pheasant

Features：The call is like a sheep, and the male bird's courtship display is complex (often ignored)

The foreign name of the black-headed tragopan is Western Tragopan, and there is no subspecies.The black-headed tragopan likes to move alone and forms small groups in winter. It has weak flying and dispersal abilities, and relatively poor ability to avoid natural enemies. It lives in dense forests, a...

Songhua chicken, Taibai chicken, blood chicken, bush chicken, green chicken, willow chicken，Ithaginis cruentus，Blood Pheasant

Features：Strong character, born with a stubborn temper

Blood Pheasant is called Blood Pheasant in foreign language, and has 12 subspecies. Also known as Blood Chicken and Songhua Chicken, the male Blood Pheasant has red large coverts, undertail coverts, uppertail coverts, feet, head sides, and wax membrane, so it is called Blood Pheasant. It has many al...

Alectoris magna,Rusty-necklaced Partridge, Przevalski's Partridge,Gala Chicken

Features：The white patches on the face, chin and throat have a black line on the outer edge, like a partridge, and a characteristic chestnut line

The foreign name of the large stone partridge is Rusty-necklaced Partridge, and there is no subspecies.The large stone partridge does not have extensive migration habits, but vertical migration with seasonal changes is more obvious on the Qinghai Plateau. In spring and summer, as the weather warms u...

Himalayan Snowcock，Tetraogallus altaicus，Altai Snowcock

Features：Known as the "climbing" expert in the pheasant family

Altai Snowcock, also known as Altai Snowcock, has two subspecies.Altai Snowcock often moves in groups except during the breeding season. It likes to run on the ground, and often swings its tail feathers up and down while walking, which is its unique behavior. It runs fast on the ground, especially w...

Tibetan snow chicken, pale-bellied snow chicken, snow chicken，Tetraogallus tibetanus，Tibetan Snowcock

Features：A relative of the dark-bellied snowcock

Tibetan Snowcock, also known as Tibetan Snowcock in English, has 6 subspecies and is similar in shape to domestic chickens.Tibetan snow chickens like to gather in groups, mostly in small groups of 3-5. In areas with high density, you can see large groups of 10-20 or even nearly 100. They are active...

Alpine snowcock, Himalayan snowcock，Tetraogallus himalayensis，Himalayan Snowcock

Features：Diurnal bird with short, strong legs, good at running and rarely flying

The Himalayan Snowcock is divided into five subspecies. The nominate subspecies has the darkest color of feathers, the southern Xinjiang subspecies has the lightest color, and the Qinghai subspecies has a color between the above two subspecies.Dark-bellied snowcocks like to gather in groups, often f...

Yellow-throated pheasant, Sichuan pheasant quail, sheep-horn chicken，Tetraophasis szechenyii，Buff-throated Partridge，Szechenyi's Monal-Partridge

Features：There is a hint of yellow in the throat, and it will keep calling before the rain or snow.

The foreign name of the yellow-throated pheasant quail is Buff-throated Partridge or Szechenyi's Monal-Partridge. It has no subspecies and is a rare resident bird.Yellow-throated pheasant quail roosts on low branches at night. Except for the breeding season when they mostly move in pairs or alon...

Red-throated Pheasant, Xikang Pheasant Quail, Sichuan Pheasant Quail, Muping Pheasant Ptarmigan，Tetraophasis obscurus，Chestnut-throated Partridge，Verreaux's Monal-Partridge

Features：Good at walking and running on the ground, and also good at gliding between valleys, but poor at flying.

Chestnut-throated Partridge, no subspecies.Chestnut-throated Partridge is usually found alone or in pairs, foraging in open areas near the forest line. They are good at walking and running on the ground, and also good at gliding in the valleys, but their flying ability is poor, and they rarely take...

Lagopus lagopus,Willow Ptarmigan, Willow Grouse And Red Grouse,Ptarmigan, Willow Chicken, Suir, Snow Chicken

Features：Birds that know how to hide

Willow Ptarmigan, with 17 subspecies, is a medium-sized bird in the grouse family.Willow Ptarmigan likes to move in the woods and sometimes in farmland. Except for the breeding season, they mostly move in groups, and in winter there can be more than a hundred. The range of activities is wide, and th...

snow cock，Lagopus muta，Rock Ptarmigan，Ptarmigan

Features：The name sounds domineering, but the animal is actually weak

Rock Ptarmigan has 25 subspecies.Rock Ptarmigan is mostly active in groups except during the breeding season, mostly in small groups of 3-5, and sometimes even up to 100 in winter. It mainly moves on the ground, and roosts in snow caves at night in winter. It flies quickly, but not far. It lives in...

Black pheasant, black chicken，Lyrurus tetrix，Black Grouse

Features：It is named after its shape, which is very similar to the guqin.

The Black Grouse is divided into 7 subspecies according to feather color and body shape. There are 3 subspecies in China, namely Xinjiang subspecies, northern subspecies and northeastern subspecies. There are differences in the body feathers of these 3 subspecies. The difference in the body feathers...

Grouse, wood chicken，Tetrao parvirostris，Black-billed Capercaillie

Features：The male and female have black beaks, feet and toes, and cinnamon irises, but the plumage is quite different.

The black-billed grouse is called Black-billed Capercaillie in foreign language, and there are 3 subspecies.The activities and foraging of black-billed grouse are all during the day, starting at dawn and not stopping until dusk. They are good at walking on the ground, and generally seldom fly except...

Common Grouse, Western Grouse，Tetrao urogallus，Western Capercaillie, Capercaillie

Features：It was first discovered in the mountains of the extreme north of Xinjiang, my country in 1975. It is the largest species of grouse.

The grouse is called Western Capercaillie in foreign language. It has 12 subspecies. It is a large grouse that lives in forest areas. It is the same size as a turkey. Grouse rarely fly except when they go up and down trees. Due to their clumsy bodies, they flap their wings violently when they take o...

Mergellus albellus,Panda duck, flower-headed saw-billed duck, fish duck, dog-headed merganser, lesser merganser, spotted merganser

Features：It is the smallest and shortest-beaked merganser.

The white merganser, also known as the spotted-headed merganser or panda duck, is a water duck of the Anatidae family and the genus Aglajidae. The male bird has mainly black and white feathers, while the female bird has dark brown upper body and white lower body. It breeds in tree holes or swamp wat...

Oriental Fish Duck，Mergus merganser，Common Merganser

Features：It is the largest species of merganser.

The Common Merganser is the largest and most widely distributed piscivorous Merganser. It forages by diving. It can dive for up to half a minute and forages during the day. It often swims on the calm lake surface while diving frequently to forage. It mainly feeds on small fish, but also preys on aqu...