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Phoebastria albatrus
Petrel, albatross, Short-tailed Albatross
Short-tailed Albatross is a large seabird with no subspecies.Short-tailed Albatross usually moves alone or in pairs. Smaller group···
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Birds are advanced vertebrates that are adapted to life on land and in the air. Birds are classified into six categories: waterfowl, wading birds, climbing birds, land birds, birds of prey, 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.
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Phoebastria nigripes
Phoebastria nigripes，Black-footed Albatross
The Black-footed Albatross (footed Albatross) is a large seabird of the family Albatross of the order Petrel, footed.The black-foo···
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Synthliboramphus wumizusume
Synthliboramphus wumizusume,Japanese Murrelet, Crested Murrelet,Mérgulo japonés,Crested auklet
The Japanese Murrelet is a small seabird with characteristics typical of small puffins, without subspecies.The crested flat-billed···
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Chlidonias niger
Chlidonias niger
The Black Tern has two subspecies. The call is a short, nasal scream called kyeh, and the liaison is called klit.The black-floatin···
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Sterna acuticauda
Sterna acuticauda,Black-bellied Tern
The Black-bellied Tern is a small waterbird with no subspecies.Black-bellied terns often fly over the waters. It's very rare t···
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Sterna aurantia
Sterna aurantia,River Tern, Indian River Tern,Yellow-billed tern, Indus Tern
River Tern is a medium-sized waterfowl with no subspecies.River terns are resident birds. They often live alone or in small groups···
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Thalasseus bernsteini
Thalasseus bernsteini,Chinese Crested Tern,Sterna bernsteini,Crested tern with black bill
The Chinese Crested Tern is a medium-sized waterbird with no subspecies.The Chinese crested tern is a summer migrant in northeaste···
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Sterna bergiii
Thalasseus bergii,Great Crested Tern
The Great Crested Tern has six subspecies.Large crested terns are resident birds and often travel in flocks. They frequently fly o···
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Larus relictus
Larus relictus,Relict Gull,angler
Relict Gull is a medium-sized waterfowl with no subspecies.In 1931, zoologist Ejnar Lonnberg, then director of the Swedish Museum ···
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Larus minutus
Larus minutus,Little Gull,Hydrocoloeus minutus
Little Gull is a small waterfowl with no subspecies.Little gulls are partly summer birds, partly travellers. Often move in groups.···
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Larus saundersi
Larus saundersi,Saunders's Gull,Chinese Black-headed Gull,Samson's gull. Wandering gull
Black-billed gull Saunders' s Gull, medium water bird, no subspecies.It is said that during the late Tang Dynasty, the famous ···
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Small Pratincole
Glareola lactea,Small Pratincole,
Small Pratincole is a small waterside bird with no subspecies.The plover often moves in groups, is agile and fast in flight, and i···
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Limicola falcinellus
Limicola falcinellus,Broad-billed Sandpiper
The Broad-billed Sandpiper has two subspecies.The broad-billed snipe is mainly a traveller bird in China, and some are winter migr···
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Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
Eurynorhynchus pygmeus,Broad-billed Sandpiper,Spoon-billed snipe. Spoon-billed snipe
Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The snipe is found alone near water in shallow waters and in loos···
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Calidris tenuirostris
Calidris tenuirostris,Great Knot
The Great Knot is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The giant Sandpiper feeds mainly on crustaceans, mollusks, insects, and i···
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Arenaria interpres
Arenaria interpres,Ruddy Turnstone, Turnstone,Red turncock, brown turncock
The foreign name Ruddy Turnstone, no subspecies.The turnstone snipe is a traveller and winter migrant in China. Spring migrates in···
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Tringa guttifer
Tringa guttifer,Spotted Greenshank,Nordmann's GreenshankNordstrom's Snipe
Spotted Greenshank is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The little greenshank is a rare traveler in China. Spring is more tha···
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Numenius madagascariensis
Numenius madagascariensis,Far Eastern Curlew,Redback Snipe, Redback Snipe, 黦 Snipe, Hausen
The foreign name is Far Eastern Curlew, and there are no subspecies.Curlews are mainly travellers in China. Some breed in northeas···
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Numenius minutus
Numenius minutus,Little Curlew,Little old oil can
Little Curlew is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The curlew usually moves mostly alone or in small groups, but it also join···
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Limnodromus semipalmatus
Limnodromus semipalmatus,Asian Dowitcher, Asiatic Dowitcher,Limnodrome semipalmé
The semi-webbed snipe (ban p Giryu), also known as Asian Dowitcher, is a small wading bird.They live alone or in small groups. Sex···
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Gallinago nemoricola
Gallinago nemoricola,Wood Snipe
Wood Snipe, small wading bird, no subspecies.It is timid and withdrawn, often living alone on the banks of forests and rivers and ···
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Metopidius indicus
Metopidius indicus,Bronze-winged Jacana
Bronze-winged Jacana is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Copper-winged pheasant is a resident bird, active during the day, m···
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Hydrophasianus chirurgus
Hydrophasianus chirurgus,Pheasant-tailed Jacana,Pheasant-tailed pheasant-tailed pheasant
Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a small to medium sized bird with no subspecies.Water pheasants prefer to live alone or in small groups,···
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Vanellus gregarius
Vanellus gregarius,Sociable Lapwing, Sociable Plover,Vanneau sociable,Chettusia gregaria ssp. gregaria,lar and Andrew,Chettusia gregaria ssp. gregaria,amp and Simmons,Long legged lapis
The Sociable Lapwingm is a medium-sized wading bird.Yellow-cheeked laphens are migratory birds with great flying abilities. They i···
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