Animals by Scientific Class Names

Black-headed Duck, Brown-headed Duck，Mergus serrator，Red-breasted Merganser

Features：The most common merganser in China

Red-breasted mergansers are medium-sized fish-eating ducks with long, thin, hooked beaks that prey on fish. The silky crest feathers are long and pointed. The breeding season of Red-breasted mergansers is from May to July. They usually form pairs during migration in late winter and spring, and some...

Falcipennis falcipennis,Siberian Grouse

Features：The rarest and most endangered species in the grouse family

Siberian Grouse has no subspecies.Siberian Grouse has no obvious migration behavior in autumn and winter, but the altitude of its habitat decreases slightly. They usually move in pairs during the breeding season, and form small groups of 3-10 during the non-breeding season, with a maximum of more th...

Lamb horn chicken，Bonasa sewerzowi，Chinese Grouse

Features：The iris is brown, the beak is dark brown, and the feet are yellow

The foreign name of the spotted-tailed hazel pheasant is Chinese Grouse, which is divided into two subspecies, namely the nominative subspecies (T.s.sewerzowi) and the Sichuan subspecies (T.s.secunda). The difference between the two is that the Sichuan subspecies has a thicker chestnut head and blac...

Flying dragon, grouse, tree chicken，Bonasia bonasia，Tetrastes bonasia，Hazel Grouse

Features：Hazel Grouse is a typical forest bird

The Hazel Grouse, also known as the Hazel Grouse in English, has 12 subspecies. It lives in Northeast China. In Manchu, it is called "Feiye Lenggu", which means "chicken on the tree". Later, it was called "Flying Dragon" based on its homonym.Hazel grouse is a forest-dwe...

Tropicoperdix chloropus,Green-legged Partridge, Green-legged Hill-partridge, Scaly-breasted Partridge,Arborophila chloropus,Scaly-breasted Partridge, Green-legged Mountain Partridge

Features：The iris is reddish brown, the beak is horny yellow, and the feet are green

The green-footed tree partridge was previously classified as the mountain partridge genus (Arborophila) and was called the green-footed mountain partridge. Based on multi-gene sequence analysis, this species and the chestnut-breasted tree partridge (T. charltonii) should be classified as an independ...

Arborophila ardens,Hainan Partridge, Hainan Hill-partridge, White-eared Hill-partridge, White-eared Partridge,Yamaaka

Features：It is a pheasant species that is unique to China and is only found in Hainan Province.

Hainan Partridge is called Hainan Partridge in foreign language, and has no subspecies.Hainan Partridge often forages in pairs or small groups of 4-5, at the bottom of the ditch, at the foot of the slope, or where fallen leaves are piled up on the hillside. They roost in trees at night. It is alert...

Arborophila crudigularis,Deep Mountain Bamboo Chicken

Features：It is a rare species unique to Taiwan Island, China

Taiwan Partridge is known as Taiwan Partridge in foreign languages, and has no subspecies.Taiwan Partridge is good at hiding. Except for the breeding season when it moves in pairs, it usually moves in small groups of 2-3. It moves mostly on the forest floor and roosts on branches at night. Every mor...

Arborophila mandellii

Features：The upper chest is chestnut, the lower chest to the anus is gray, and the ribs have chestnut and white spots

The Red-breasted Partridge is called Collared Partridge in English. It has no subspecies and is a medium-sized nearly gray partridge. It is an extremely rare resident bird in China.Red-breasted Partridge often lives and moves in small groups, mostly near streams. It is extremely timid, often hiding...

Arborophila brunneopectus

Features：Quiet and hidden

Brown-breasted Hill Partridge has three subspecies.Arborophila brown breast temperament is relatively quiet, also good at hiding, generally difficult to find. The call is a monotonous guttural sound, developed into a high and low whistle ti-hu, ti-hu, ti-hu... Audio volume unchanged. kew, kew, kew.....

Arborophila atrogularis

Features：The cheek and ear feathers are milky white

White-cheeked Partridge has no subspecies.Partridges often move in groups, consisting of 5-8 or more than 10 individuals. Good at running and walking on the ground, generally rarely take off. It feeds mainly on plant food such as shoots, young leaves, buds, berries and seeds of understory shrubs and...

Arborophila gingica,White-browed Hill Partridge ,Rickett's Hill Partridge,White-browed partridge, pheasant, Hsinchu Chicken

Features：Endemic to southeast China having white brow stripes

There are two subspecies of White-browed Hill Partridge.The white-fronted arboridge lives in trees at night. hu-u-u, a long, plaintive two-tone whistle. Frightened after flying fast, but the flight distance is not large, fly not far that fall into the underbrush or grass.Arborophila mainly feeds on...

Arborophila rufogularis

Features：The beautiful spirit birds of Gaoligong Mountain

Rufous-throated Hill Partridge has six subspecies.The red-throated arboridge is a resident bird. Like clusters, often form small groups of 4-12 animals. Temperament is more bold, not afraid of people, generally in the underbrush and grass activities. He is good at running quickly on the ground, prow...

Arborophila rufipectus,Sichuan Partridge,Bamboo shoot chicken, bamboo shoot chicken, and Tuo Tuo chicken

Features：It is a medium-sized, brightly colored mountain partridge.

Sichuan Partridge, also known as Sichuan Partridge in English, has no subspecies and is a rare and endemic pheasant native to southwest China. Sichuan Mountain Quail often moves alone or in small groups of 5-6. It is alert and good at hiding. It runs fast on the ground. When...

Arborophila torqueola

Features：There is a white horizontal band between the front neck and the chest that separates the neck and chest, hence the name.

Hill Partridge, there are 5 subspecies.Hill Partridge is a resident bird. They often move in pairs or small groups of 3-5 or family groups. They are alert and good at hiding. They run fast on the ground. When frightened, they often run to escape from enemies. They only take off when they are in dang...

Berardius bairdii,Baird's beaked whale,Bell's beaked whale, Bell's beaked whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, North Pacific four-toothed whale

Features：Probably the largest of all beaked whales

Baird's beaked whale, whose foreign name is Baird's beaked whale, may be the largest of all beaked whales.The appearance of the Bel's beaked whale is so similar to that of Aldrich's beaked whale that some people believe that the two are the same species. However, their habitats are i...

Mesoplodon densirostris,Bryde's beaked whale, Bryde's beaked whale, Blunt beaked whale

Features：The male Beaked Whale is one of the most bizarre looking whales in the world.

Blainville's beaked whale is the most common species in the genus Blainville.Blainville's beaked whales usually move alone or in pairs, and small groups of 3 to 7 (occasionally up to 12) have also been recorded.The beaked whale generally performs shallow dives, but can dive deep for up to 45...

Red Pigeon，Harpactes erythrocephalus，Red-headed Trogon

Features：The male bird is distinguished by its red head, and the female bird is distinguished from other female trogons by its red abdomen.

Red-headed Trogons are mostly single or in pairs; they live in trees, either climbing on the top branches of small trees to eat wild fruits, or standing quietly on tree branches waiting for an opportunity to attack flying insects, and occasionally following flying insects. They have poor flying abil...

Harpactes wardi，Ward's Trogon

Features：Very beautiful bird

The red-bellied trogon is a crimson and dark chestnut trogon. It has an orange-yellow eyebrow pattern; the central tail feathers are black. The outer tail feathers of the wedge tail are crimson on the ventral side as a distinguishing feature.The red-bellied trogon often moves alone or in pairs; it i...

Batrachostomus hodgsoni,Black-capped Frogmouth, Black-capped Frogmouth, Old Fearful,Batrachostomus hodgsoni hodgsoni

Features：It has a wide mouth and is the only frog-mouthed owl in China.

The body shape of the Black-capped Frogmouth is similar to that of a nighthawk. However, the beak is wide, and the upper beak is very curved with a hooked tip. The whiskers on the forehead and head are very developed, and the nostrils are covered by whiskers, which distinguishes it from birds of the...

Lyncornis macrotis,Eurostopodus macrotis

Features：The largest species of Chinese nightjar, and the only one with ear tufts.

The hairy-legged nightjar is a medium-sized bird of the family Viperidae and genus Viperidae. It has dark brown horizontal stripes on its body, very conspicuous ear feathers, and a yellow-brown crown, which is lighter than the rest of the head. The top of the head is sandy yellow with very fine blac...

Caprimulgus indicus,Jungle Nightjar,Nighthawk, mosquito-bird, bark-sticking bird, ghost bird, night swallow

Features：The feather color is very similar to the bark, which helps the animal hide itself and more effectively avoid enemies and catch food.

Common nighthawk is a resident bird in Tibet, China, and a summer migratory bird in other places. It moves alone or in pairs. It is nocturnal, and it often crouches on the grass in the forest or lies on the dark tree trunks during the day, hence the name "sticking to the bark". Because its...