Animals by Scientific Class Names

Ocellated Quail，Cyrtonyx ocellatus

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Ocellated Quail (Cyrtonyx ocellatus), no subspecies.Quails are herbivorous birds. The food is mainly Oxalisspp. And sedge (Cyperusspp.) The seeds of... As a result, these birds are often seen digging in moist soil, with elongated claws suited to digging at the roots and tubers of plants. Insects and...

Cyrtonyx montezumae，Montezuma Quail

Features：The male bird is characterized by a distinctive black and white face

Colored Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) has five subspecies.Painted quails feed on green plants and insects on the ground, moving in clusters, usually walking or running on the ground, and feeding in the early morning. The food is mainly oxalis (oxalis SPP.) and Cyperusspp.) seeds. As a result, these bi...

Northern Bobwhite，Colinus virginianus

Features：It is the most widely distributed partridge in the United States and is distributed in North America

Northern Bobwhite Partridge (Colinus virginianus) is a small partridge with 20 subspecies.Partridge is distributed in North America, is the most widely distributed partridge in the United States, almost throughout the eastern United States, in parts of Mexico can also be seen, although the number is...

Colinus leucopogon，Spot-bellied Bobwhite

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Spot-bellied Bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) has six subspecies.Male quail birds are most common in spring and summer, with a loud song and a bob-bob-white call.Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).Protect...

Colinus nigrogularis

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The name Colinus nigrogularis is unknown.International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List: Not Threatened (LC).Protect wild animals and eliminate wild meat.Maintaining ecological balance is everyone's responsibility!...

Colinus cristatus，Crested Bobwhite

Features：The brown back has black spots, and the head has white brow stripes with a short crest

Colinus cristatus, Crested Bobwhite, is an insect eater. In spring and summer, male birds are most often seen, with a loud, clear call that produces a bob-bob-white call.Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1: Not Threatened (L...

Callipepla squamata，Scaled Quail

Features：The body feathers are scaly moire, pale gray to pale white in color

Callipepla squamata is called Scaled Quail and has four subspecies.The quail mainly eats seeds, berries, and sometimes leaves, roots, and insects. Foraging is usually done by digging your toes and then using your beak. There are usually two adult birds and a variable number of subadult birds in smal...

Gambel's Quail，Callipepla gambelii

Features：There is a black curved crown feather on the forehead, similar to the beaded quail

Callipepla gambelii belongs to the family Callipepla, there are 7 subspecies, and the distribution area is slightly different.Black-bellied quails are usually active in the morning and late afternoon. 90% of our food comes from plants. A variety of seeds and leaves are ingested throughout the year....

Callipepla douglasii，Elegant Quail

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The Quail's scientific name is Callipepla douglasii and its foreign name is Elegant Quail.Listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1: Red List of Birds 2010.International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Protection Level: No Threat (LC).Protect wi...

Callipepla californica，California Quail

Features：It was plump and stocky, with a black curving crown on its forehead

Callipepla californica (California Quail) has eight subspecies.The quails feed on green plants and insects on the ground, and are highly clustered. Although they have strong flying ability, they mostly walk or run, and nest in the shelter of low branches. It likes to eat plants, seeds, insects and o...

Tympanuchus phasianellus，Sharp-tailed Grouse

Features：The tail is short but has a slender central plumage, giving the tail a sharp appearance

The Sharp-tailed prairie Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) is known as sharp-tailed grouse and has seven subspecies.The pintail prairie grouse is a forest bird, usually hiding in the branches of the pine tree, sometimes people walk nearby, still not moving: in the underforest brush slowly, when frig...

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus，Lesser Prairie-chicken

Features：It's a sandy grouse with brown markings

The Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has no subspecies.The range of the little grass fowl is up to 5 square kilometers for males, and 2.3 square kilometers for females. The fragmentation of local habitats by farming and human construction has put considerable pressure on the range...

Tympanuchus cupido，Greater Prairie-chicken

Features：The male bird has two pointed crowns on top of its head and large inflating yellow-orange air sacs above its neck and eyes

The Prairie grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), also known as Greater Prairie-chicken, has three subspecies.Prairie grouse usually live in a relatively small area of a few hundred acres to cover and meet their food and water needs. If food is in short supply, they can also fly several miles for food. It is...

Greater Sage-grouse，Centrocercus urophasianus

Features：It is the largest grouse in North America

The Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), also known as Greater Sage-grouse without subspecies, is the largest grouse in North America.Sage grouse do not fly much except up and down trees. Because of their clumsy body, they flap their wings violently when they first take off, and make a ge-ge-ge...

Centrocercus minimus，Gunnison Grouse

Features：The lesser sage grouse is about 2/3 the size of the sage grouse and has different coloration and a unique mating ritual

The Lesser sage Grouse (Centrocercus minimus) is Gunnison Grouse, no subspecies.The little sage grouse does not fly much except up and down trees. Because of his clumsiness, he fluttered violently when he first took off. When flying, the rise speed is slow, and after reaching a certain height, the w...

Ruffed Grouse，Bonasa umbellus

Features：The male bird has a short crest on its head and a square tail, which has a broad black band toward the tip, fanned out

The Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) has 15 subspecies.Shawl hazel chicken is a non-migratory bird, is a forest bird, the breeding season is not in groups, other seasons more into small groups of activities, there are 3-4 or 6-7 a group, there are more than 10. Foraging begins at dawn. When looking f...

Tetrao mlokosiewiczi

Features：Short round wings, not good at flying, strong feet, sharp claws

Tetrao mlokosiewiczi, the Caucasian black lyric chicken, is active in the morning and evening in large forest clearings, forest edges and sunny grass or shrubs, and in the rest of the forest by falling trees, shrubs or grass clearings. It mainly roosts in larch trees at night. In winter, they often...

Lagopus leucurus，White-tailed Ptarmigan

Features：In summer, the feathers are mottled, and in winter, both sexes are white

The White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) has five subspecies.The winter white-tailed thunderbird lives in tundra, tundra scrub forests and rocky meadow areas near the North Pole and is very hardy. Like to be active in the woods, sometimes also to the farmland. Most of them move in groups except...

Dendragapus canadensis，Spruce Grouse

Features：Male and female feather color is very different, male body size is also large, nostrils and feet have feathers, to adapt to the cold

The Fir-tree chicken (Dendragapus canadensis), also known as Spruce Grouse, has six subspecies.Fir-tree chicken activity peaks in the early morning and late evening, pecking at grass. In the summer, this solitary activity on the ground, in the winter may gather in small groups of up to 30 individual...

Dendragapus obscurus，Dusky Grouse

Features：North America is the second largest grouse

The blue Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus), also known as Dusky Grouse, is a relatively large grouse with four subspecies.Blue grouse tend to form smaller groups in the warmer months and larger groups in the winter, spending most of their time at the top of trees feeding on needles or pine seeds. In sum...

Dendragapus fuliginosus，Sooty Grouse

Features：The plumage is dark, mainly dark gray, stone gray, and brown, with a yellow throat sac

The Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosu) is a relatively large grouse with four subspecies.The black grouse is an early adult. These birds live on the ground or in the trees in winter. In winter, it eats mainly the needles of fir and Douglas fir, but occasionally hemlock and pine needles; In the su...