Birds: different species, definitions, photos, and more

Eurostopodus macrotis，Great Eared Nightjar,Lyncornis macrotis

Features：The Hairy-legged Nightjar is 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 the genus Viperidae. It often moves alone or in pairs. It is the largest species of nightjar in China and the only one with ear feather tufts. It is nocturnal and often crouches on the grass in the forest or lies on the dar...

Hodgson's Frogmouth,Batrachostomus hodgsoni

Features：The whole body feathers are covered with black-brown, brown and white moth-like markings.

The black-capped frogmouth is a small bird. It is similar in shape to a nighthawk. It often moves alone or in pairs. It is nocturnal and hides in dense forests during the day, lying or standing on horizontal branches along the trunks of large trees. Because its body color is similar to that of branc...

Arctic Tern ,Sterna paradisaea

Features：It has a "black cover" on its head and is the bird that flies the farthest on Earth.

The Arctic tern is a seabird belonging to the tern genus. It is medium-sized and distributed in the Arctic and nearby areas. It is a migratory bird. It experiences two summers each year, migrating from its northern breeding area to the ocean near Antarctica, and then migrating back to the breeding a...

Balaeniceps rex,Scorpion Stork, Shoe-billed Stork, Zootropod

Features：The bird with the largest head and widest beak in the world

The largest bird on earth is the Shoebill, the only species in the genus Shoebill of the family Shoebill. The name of the Shoebill comes from its powerful beak. It is a large bird very similar to the Stork family. It is tall, averaging 1.2 meters tall, weighing 4000-7000 grams, and has a wingspan of...

Arundinax aedon,Tree warbler, reed warbler, reed warbler, large-billed warbler

Features：The mouth is wide, with a base width of more than 4 mm, and the whiskers are very developed with secondary whiskers.

Thick-billed reed warbler is a bird of the family Albizia and genus Albizia. Like other reed warblers, it often moves and forages alone or in pairs in dense bushes and grasses. It is stealthy and moves quickly and agilely. During the breeding season, it often sings on high branches near the nest. It...

Acrocephalus scirpaceus,Large-billed Warbler

Features：The eyebrow lines are pale white but not obvious, and usually only the part in front of the eyes is clear.

Reed warblers are small in size and often move alone or in pairs. They like to perch on reed stems and small willow branches. They are sexually active, agile and cautious, and often hide in bushes or grass.The call is a monotonous and dull 2-4 intermittent low call, sometimes imitating the singing o...

Acrocephalus dumetorum,Reed Warbler

Features：With a very weak yellowish eyebrow pattern.

Brandt's reed warbler is a small bird. The male and female have similar plumage. It may be a summer migratory bird in Xinjiang, China, and a stray bird in Hong Kong. It often moves alone or in pairs. It is lively and alert. It often jumps on low trees or flies between small trees. It is busy loo...

Acrocephalus agricola,Double-browed reed warbler, willow warbler, reed warbler, round-winged reed warbler

Features：The upper edge of the eyebrows is decorated with wide dark brown side crown lines.

The rice field reed warbler is a small bird with similar plumage for males and females. It often moves alone or in pairs. It also moves in groups during the migration period. It moves quickly and swiftly between the branches of shrubs or grass stems, and occasionally jumps to the top of shrubs or gr...

Acrocephalus tangorum

Features：With dark eye stripes, wide white and a large and long beak.

The Far Eastern Reed Warbler is a medium-sized, dull grey-brown reed warbler. The new winter plumage is very brown, with brown breast, flanks and undertail coverts. It is very similar to the Paddy Field Warbler, but with a longer bill and a striking black stripe on the brow. The bill is long and the...

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus,Sedge Warbler

Features：Thick dark brown shaft pattern on top of head and back

The water reed warbler is a small bird with similar plumage for males and females. It often moves alone or in groups. It is alert and usually hides in the grass and bushes to move or forage, so it is rare to see it. But during the breeding season, the male bird, like other reed warblers, often stand...

Acrocephalus concinens,Blunt-winged Warbler

Features：There are dark brown lines across the eyes but no dark stripes on the eyebrow lines.

Blunt-winged reed warbler (scientific name: Acrocephalus concinens) is a bird of the family Acrocephalus. In mainland China, it is distributed in Hebei, Shaanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places. The type locality of this specie...

Acrocephalus sorghophilus,Spotted Reed Warbler

Features：The crown and upper back have fuzzy vertical lines, the eyebrow lines are yellowish with wide black lines above.

The Fine-striped Reed Warbler is a summer and migratory bird in my country, and perhaps a winter migratory bird. It migrates to Hebei, Beijing and other places to breed in late May and early June every year, and begins to migrate south in late September and early October. It feeds on reed fields in...

Acrocephalus bistrigiceps,Willow leaves, mouth lashes

Features：The eyebrow lines are light yellow with obvious dark brown vertical lines.

The black-browed reed warbler often moves alone or in pairs. It is alert and agile. It can nimbly jump and shuttle between the stems and leaves of reeds, and can also stand upright on reeds or grass stems and climb up and down. Sometimes it flies back and forth between reeds and grass. It is constan...

Acrocephalus stentoreus,Southern Great Reed Warbler

Features：The brown color in front of the eye extends from the front of the eye to the back of the eye, forming an inconspicuous eye line.

The Noisy Great Reed Warbler is similar to the Great Reed Warbler. It often moves alone or in pairs. It is agile and quick, often dodging and darting quickly through reeds, bushes or grass. During the breeding season, it often stands on the top of reeds or other aquatic plants and shrubs and sings f...

Acrocephalus orientalis,Reed strings, quacking, splitting reeds, chirping

Features：A slightly larger brown reed warbler with prominent yellow eyebrow lines.

Oriental Great Reed Warbler is a summer migratory bird in China, and some are resident birds. In spring, they migrate to China to breed from early May to mid-to-late May, and in autumn, they begin to migrate from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds in late September and early October.T...

Acrocephalus arundinaceus,Large reed bundle, reed string, reed katydid

Features：The most common species in my country is the Great Reed Warbler, which is the largest of the warblers.

The Great Reed Warbler is a small bird, commonly known as the Great Reed Warbler, the Reed Casper and the Reed Grasshopper. It is sexually active, often jumping and climbing between grass stems, reeds and bushes alone or in pairs. It is extremely alert, changing its position from time to time and su...

Lanius,Brown Shirk,Butcher Bird,Butcher bird, Hubula, quail, shrike, shrike, shrike

Features：It has a ferocious temperament and is known as the "bird of prey among birds".

Brown Shirk or Butcher Bird (scientific name Lanius) is a small carnivorous bird, most of which are migratory birds in my country. .The most common species are red-tailed shrike, tiger-striped shrike, brown-backed shrike, and gray shrike. Shrikes are smaller than robins, with gray or light brown fea...

Apus nipalensis，Little Swift

Features：The back and tail are dark brown with a slight bluish green sheen. The tail is flat and slightly concave in the middle.

The small white-rumped swift lives and moves in groups. Sometimes it also flies in the air with house swallows. It flies fast, often with a period of rapid flapping wings followed by a period of gliding, and the two are often performed alternately. It will make a relatively sharp call in the evening...

Apus acuticauda,Dark-backed Swift

Features：Very similar to the White-rumped Swift, but with a darker throat and no white spots on the waist.

Dark-backed swift, Latin name Apus acuticauda, is distributed in the Indian subcontinent and southwest China (including India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and southeastern Tibet, China, etc.), Indochina Peninsula and southeastern coastal areas of China (including...

Apus pacificus，Fork-tailed Swift

Features：The waist is white with fine dark brown feather shaft patterns.

White-rumped swifts are summer migratory birds. They migrate here in spring from April to May. They migrate away in autumn from September to October. Some of them stay in Hong Kong and Taiwan.White-rumped swifts like to fly in groups, often flying back and forth in groups over their habitats. In the...

Apodidae,House swift, common swift

Features：

Apodidae (scientific name) is commonly known as swifts. In animal taxonomy, it is a family in the order Apodidae of the class Aves. Swifts are the fastest flying birds, often preying on insects in the air, with long wings and weak legs. Swifts are widely distributed. Some species breed in high latit...