Grus vipio,White-naped Crane, red-faced crane, white-crowned crane, native crane

Features：On the Korean Peninsula, the white-naped crane is seen as a symbol of peace.

White-naped Crane is a large wading bird with no subspecies.White-naped Crane mainly feeds on plant seeds, grass roots, young leaves, young shoots, grains, fish, frogs, lizards, tadpoles, shrimps, mollusks and insects. When feeding, they mainly use their beaks to peck, or use their beaks to first op...

Porphyrio porphyrio,Purple Swamphen, Purple Gallinule, Purple Swamp-Hen,Poule sultane

Features：Purple feathers, flaming red lips

Purple moorhen is called pukeko in foreign language. It is a medium-sized wading bird with 13 subspecies.Purple moorhen often moves in pairs or family groups. It is docile and timid, mostly active in the early morning and dusk, hiding in the reeds during the day. It is noisy when active, making freq...

Grus canadensis,Brown Crane, Canada Crane

Features：The face is white, the forehead and crown are red, and the whole body feathers are gray with brown.

Sandhill Crane is a large wading bird with the largest number of cranes in the world. It is divided into 6 subspecies with a total of more than 800,000 individuals. However, there are about 120 individuals in the Mississippi species and less than 100 individuals in the Cuban subspecies. Both are end...

Grus leucogeranus,Siberian Crane ,Siberian White Crane, Snow Crane,Siberian Crane, Nun Crane, Snow Crane

Features：It symbolizes good luck and longevity in Chinese culture and is the provincial bird of Jiangxi Province.

The Siberian Crane is a large wading bird. Although it is divided into three populations, namely the eastern, central and western populations, it is a monotypic species with no subspecies differentiation. Known as the "living fossil" of birds, there are less than 4,000 of them in the world...

Porzana paykullii,Band-bellied Crake

Features：The upper body is olive brown, the wing coverts have white horizontal stripes, and the front edge of the wings is white when flying.

Band-bellied Crake, whose foreign name is Band-bellied Crake, is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Spotted frogs migrate to Northeast China to breed in mid-to-late April in spring, and migrate away from their breeding grounds in late September and early October in autumn.Spotted frogs often liv...

Zapornia parva,Porzana parva,Little Crake

Features：Green bill, red base, dark green feet

Little Crake is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The frog often moves alone or in family groups. It is good at swimming and diving. It often swims among the reeds and water grass in the pond. Sometimes it also moves outside the reeds or on the water surface far from the shore, especially in th...

Zapornia bicolor,Black-tailed Crake,Amaurornis bicolor,Porzana bicolor,Black-tailed bittern

Features：A medium-sized frog with a distinct chestnut and almost black coloration.

The brown-backed frog is called Black-tailed Crake in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The brown-backed frog is a resident bird. It likes to move in streams with vegetation on one side and open grassland on the other side. Its living habits are very similar to those of the red-footed bittern....

Crex crex,Corncrake, Corn Crake

Features：Its long, rusty-brown wings are a distinctive feature when in flight.

The foreign name of the long-legged rail is Corncrake, Corn Crake, which is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The long-legged rail is a summer migratory bird in China. It migrates to my country in late April in spring and migrates away in October in autumn. Good at hiding, hiding in the grass o...

Coturnicops exquisitus,Swinhoes Yellow Rail

Features：It is the smallest frog in China, not a frog.

The foreign name of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail is Swinhoes Yellow Rail, and there is no subspecies.Some of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail are summer migratory birds, while others are winter migratory birds. In Northeast China, they are mostly summer migratory birds, in the east, they are winter migratory bi...

Tetrax tetrax, Little Bustard,Outarde canepetière, Sisón,Ground

Features：The neck has a white horizontal band and a "V" shaped diagonal band

Little Bustard, also known as Little Bustard in English, is a large bird of the family Bustard, with no subspecies.Little Bustards often gather in large groups during the non-breeding season, sometimes up to several thousand, and are active during the day. Male birds in the wintering group have coll...

Spotted Bustard、Chlamydotis macqueeni,Macqueen's Bustard

Features：The bustard is smaller than the larger one, and looks like a chicken, but has only three toes.

Houbara Bustard, also known as Macqueen's Bustard, has no subspecies. A large ground-dwelling bird, once a subspecies of the Ruffed-jawed Bustard, it has been reclassified as an independent species.Like other bustards, the Houbara Bustard is a bird of open and desert areas. In Xinjiang, it mainl...

Otis tarda,Great Bustard,Avutarda, Avutarda Común,Додук, Մեծ արոս, Дуадақ,Ground quail, old brocade, lone leopard, wild goose

Features：It is one of the two largest species of bustard birds (the other is the Grey-necked Bustard).

The Great Bustard has two subspecies, both of which are distributed in China. The common subspecies breeds in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Tongyu and Zhenlai, Jilin, northwest Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia. It hibernates in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinc...

Centropus bengalensis,Lesser Coucal,Little Chicken,Little Crow Pheasant,Little Pheasant Cock,Little Wasp

Features：It looks similar to the brown-winged cuckoo, but is smaller in size and has reddish-brown or chestnut underwing feathers.

Lesser Coucal is a medium-sized bird with three subspecies.Lesser Coucal is a resident bird, often moving alone or in pairs. It is smart and secretive, and will immediately run into dense bushes or grass if it is slightly disturbed. It mainly feeds on insects and other small animals such as locusts,...

Centropus sinensis,Big hairy chicken, hairy chicken, red hairy chicken, red pheasant, wasp, green knot chicken, Luogu

Features：The whole body is black except for the wings, shoulders and inner side of the shoulders which are chestnut.

The Greater Coucal is a medium-sized bird with 6 subspecies.The Greater Coucal prefers to move alone or in pairs, rarely in groups. It usually moves on the ground, and when resting, it also perches on small branches or basks in the sun on the top of reeds, especially after rain. It is good at hiding...

Hirundapus cochinchinensis，Silver-backed Needletail

Features：The shoulders, back and waist are brown-gray, forming an inconspicuous saddle-shaped gray-brown spot on the back.

Grey-throated Needle-tailed Swift often flies in open areas and over forests. It flies very fast. It mainly catches flying insects in the air for food.Grey-throated Needle-tailed Swift's breeding season is between February and March. It nests in rock caves and tree holes. The nest is made of mos...

Aerodramus fuciphagus，Edible-nest Swiftlet

Features：Black tail, the whole body is black or brown, the large tail is fan-shaped and not forked

The Java Swiftlet is called Edible-nest Swiftlet in English, and has 8 subspecies.The Java Swiftlet flies along the coast and islands all day long to catch flying insects, and rarely rests. When flying, it does not make sharp turns like the house swallow, because its tail feathers are not forked. Mo...

Hemiprocne coronata，Crested Treeswift,Crested Tree Swift

Features：It has a long crest on its head, shining with green luster, very beautiful and unique.

The Crested Treeswift is called Crested Treeswift in English. There are 6 subspecies in total, and only 1 subspecies is distributed in my country. The distribution range is very limited. It is a rare bird and is a second-level protected animal in my country.None of the Crested Swifts are truly migra...

Batrachostomus hodgsoni,Hodgson's Frogmouth,Black-crowned Frogmouth, Black-crowned Frogmouth

Features：The mouth is wide like a frog

The Black-capped Frogmouth Nightjar, also known as Hodgson’s Frogmouth in foreign languages, is an internationally endangered species. Its full name is the Black-capped Frogmouth Nightjar. According to the China Forestry Science Data Center, the scientific name of the Black-capped Frogmouth Nightja...

Pterocles orientalis，Black-bellied Sandgrouse

Features：Although it is also called "chicken", it is more closely related to pigeons.

Black-bellied Sandgrouse, there are 2 subspecies.Black-bellied Sandgrouse is a summer migratory bird, migrating to the breeding grounds in spring from March to April, and leaving the breeding grounds in autumn from September to October, migrating in small groups.The black-bellied sandgrouse moves in...

Ducula badia ,Mountain Imperial Pigeon,Millet-backed imperial pigeon, Grey-headed southern pigeon

Features：The call is deep and gives people a sad feeling. It bends and kowtows when calling.

Mountain Imperial Pigeon is called Mountain Imperial Pigeon in foreign language, and has 6 subspecies.Mountain Imperial Pigeon often moves in small groups, and occasionally in large groups of about 40. They often move in the canopy of tall trees in the forest. In the morning and evening, they often...

Green dove, big green dove, big green pigeon，Ducula aenea，Green Imperial Pigeon

Features：The sound is very special, very much like the sound of human snickering

Green Imperial Pigeon, also known as Green Imperial Pigeon, has 15 subspecies.Green Imperial Pigeons often move alone or in pairs, and also in groups in winter. It often moves in the canopy, especially in the morning and evening. It often lives on the dead branches at the top of the big tree. It rar...