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Birds

Birds are advanced vertebrates that are adapted to life on land and in the air. Birds in China are divided into six categories: waterfowl, wading birds, climbing birds, land birds, raptors, and songbirds. These six categories are collectively referred to as the six major ecological groups of birds. There are many species of birds, spread all over the world, and the ecology is diverse. There are more than 9,020 known bird species in existence, and more than 1,400 species in China.

Pelecanidae

Pelecanidae

pelican, owl, taohe, gannet, bag goose, bag bird

Pelicans often live in groups in the wild. In addition to swimming, they spe···

Pygoscelis antarcticus

Pygoscelis antarcticus

chinstrap penguin, Police officer penguin, Antarctic penguin, chinstrap penguin, whiskered penguin, chinstrap penguin

As penguins that look like police officers, they are also very courageous an···

Aythya nyroca

Aythya nyroca

Ferruginous Duck,White-eyed Pochard,Ferruginous Pochard

As a male white-eyed pochard, it is born with a pair of bean-sized white eye···

Anas zonorhyncha

Anas zonorhyncha

Spot-billed duck, Valley duck, Yellow-billed duck, Fire duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Oriental spot-billed duck,Anas zonorhyncha,Eastern Spot-billed Duck,Chinese Spot-bille

Spot-billed duck is also called valley duck, yellow-billed duck, and fire du···

Anser albifrons

Anser albifrons

Wild goose, spotted goose, bright spotted goose,Greater White-fronted,Goose White-fronted Goose

You can often see flocks of wild geese flying freely in the sky, sometimes i···

Anser indicus

Anser indicus

White-headed goose, Black-headed goose,Bar-headed Goose

Bar-headed geese - they are the highest flying birds in the world. At an alt···

Cygnus atratus

Cygnus atratus

Black Swan

In my country, swans are regarded as a symbol of beauty, auspiciousness, nob···

Tadorna ferruginea

Tadorna ferruginea

Yellow duck, yellow duck, duck, red goose,Ruddy Shelduck

There is a kind of "duck" that is slightly larger than a domestic ···

flat-billed swan

flat-billed swan

Coscoroba coscoroba,Coscoroba Swan

扁嘴天鹅主要在水中生活,游泳时颈部弯曲,头部低垂,姿态极为优雅。飞行时颈部向···

black-necked swan

black-necked swan

Cygnus melanocoryphus

The black-necked swan is a swan with a black neck and white body. It mainly ···

Picumnus rufiventris

Picumnus rufiventris

Picumnus rufiventris,Rufous-breasted piculet

The scientific name of the brown breasted woodpecker is Picumnus rufiventris···

Eupetomena macroura

Eupetomena macroura

Eupetomena macroura,Swallow-tailed Hummingbird

The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is Eupetomena macroura and swallow-tailed hum···

Ptilinopus hyogastra

Ptilinopus hyogastra

Ptilinopus hyogastra,Grey-headed Fruit-dove,Grey-headed Fruit Dove

Its scientific name is Ptilinopus hyogastra, and its foreign names are Grey-···

Megapodius tenimberensis

Megapodius tenimberensis

Megapodius tenimberensis,Tanimbar Scrubfowl

The Tanimbar Scrubfowl (Megapodius tenimberensis), formerly a subspecies of ···

Apus cooki

Apus cooki

Apus cooki,Cook's Swift,Apus cooki

Indochinese White-rumped Swift (English name: Cook's Swift, scientific n···

Apus salimalii

Apus salimalii

Salim Ali's Swift,Apus salimalii

The Tibetan White-rumped Swift (English name: Salim Ali's Swift, scienti···

Hirundapus celebensis

Hirundapus celebensis

Purple Needletail,Hirundapus celebensis,Purple Needletail

The Purple Needletail (Hirundapus celebensis) is a species of bird in the ge···

Urocynchramus pylzowi

Urocynchramus pylzowi

Urocynchramus pylzowi,Pink-tailed Bunting,Pink-tailed Rosefinch,Ground hemp

Pink-tailed Bunting is a species of the family Pinnipedae, with no subspecie···

Garrulax bieti

Garrulax bieti

Garrulax bieti,White-speckled Laughingthrush,

White-speckled Laughingthrush is a species endemic to southwestern China. Th···

Numenius arquata

Numenius arquata

Numenius arquata,Eurasian Curlew,Curlew

There are two subspecies, Eurasian Curlew.It is a summer migratory bird in n···

Francolinus pintadeanus

Francolinus pintadeanus

Chinese partridge, Yue pheasant, Huainan

Chinese partridges like to move in secondary forests, low shrub forests, and···