
Apus acuticauda
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
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
Apodidae,House swift, common swift
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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...

Tachymarptis melba
Tachymarptis melba
Features:Characteristically, the white throat and chest are separated by a dark brown horizontal band.
The Alpine Swift is a species of swift. Swifts are air-dwelling birds that often fly in groups for long periods of time, preying on insects in the air. They are similar to the common house swallows, but belong to a different order in evolution. They rarely live in trees, but rest on cliffs and build...

Asian Palm-swift
Asian Palm-swift,Cypsiurus balasiensis
Features:The body is dark brown and the tail is deeply forked.
Palm Swifts use the crowns of palm trees and their drooping dead leaves and palm mantle as their nests and resting places. The nests are close to the leaves of palm trees. They can be found up to 1,500 meters above sea level. They often fly in groups over open fields. They fly higher in clear weathe...

Hirundapus giganteus
Hirundapus giganteus,Brown-backed Spinetail
Features:The white part from the flank to the tail forms a V shape
Brown-backed needle-tailed swift, Latin name: Hirundapus giganteus, is a large and strong needle-tailed swift of the genus Hirundapus in the family Apodidae. There is one record in Hong Kong, China. Abroad, it is found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Island, Philippines, and Southeast Asia....

White-throated Needletail
White-throated Needletail,Hirundapus caudacutus
Features:The top of the head to the back of the neck is dark brown, and the chin and throat are white
The White-throated Needle-tailed Swift is a bird of the genus Apodidae. It lives in high-altitude cold forests with many cliffs. It flies quickly over forests and ridges in groups. It is found in mixed groups with other swifts such as the White-rumped Swift abroad, and sometimes flies low over the w...

Germain's Swiftlet
Germain's Swiftlet
Features:Similar to the black swiftlet. Its wings are long and blunt.
The Gouldian Swiftlet belongs to the Swiftidae family. The population is rare. The nominate subspecies breeds in Kalimantan Island, Indonesia, Sulawesi Island, Malaysian Borneo, Hoi An, Vietnam, and Dazhou Island in the southeast of Hainan Island. There are more than 200 nests in three caves at most...

Aerodramus brevirostris
Aerodramus brevirostris,Himalayan Swiftlet
Features:The upper body is smoky gray, and the wings are very long, protruding clearly from the tail tip when folded.
The short-billed swiftlet is a small bird that often flies in groups over its habitat to hunt during the day. When flying, it often makes a "di-di-di-di" sound, singing while flying. The sound is monotonous and rapid, and it seems to be more chaotic. It mainly feeds on various moths and fl...

Struthio camelus
ostrich、Struthio camelus
Features:The world's largest bird, it cannot fly and is the only two-toed bird in the world.
The largest bird on earth is the African ostrich, which is also a flightless bird. In biological classification, it is the only species of the family Struthionidae. The African ostrich is about 183-300 cm long, 240-280 cm tall, and weighs 130-150 kg. The female bird is slightly smaller. The snake-li...

swift
swift,Guanyin swallow, swallow, clumsy swallow, house swallow, wild swallow, brown swift, European swift
Features:The fastest long-distance flyer on Earth
The fastest animal on earth that can fly long distances is the Spine-tailed Swift. The Spine-tailed Swift is the champion of long-distance flight, with a normal flying speed of 170 kilometers per hour; the fastest speed can reach 352.5 kilometers per hour, or 100 meters per second. The Spine-tailed...

Egretta garzetta
Egretta garzetta,Great Egret, Middle Egret, Little Egret, Yellow-billed Egret
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Egrets are a general term for medium-sized wading birds of the genus Egretta. There are 13 species of birds in the genus Egretta, including the great egret, the middle egret, the little egret and the yellow-billed egret, all of which have all-white feathers and are commonly called "egrets"...

Podiceps cristatus
Podiceps cristatus,Langlibai, Langhuaer, Langli, Shui Laogua, Shui donkey
Features:The largest grebe has a prominent dark crest.
The Crested Grebe is a summer bird that lives from the northeast to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and winters in most areas south of the Yangtze River. During the breeding season, it has complex courtship behaviors, with male and female individuals performing a ritualized "dance" on the water...

Tachybaptus ruficollis
Tachybaptus ruficollis,Oil duck, water hyacinth, oil gourd, turtle duck
Features:It has yellow eyes and is proficient in swimming and diving.
The small grebe (pì) is a species of the genus Small grebe of the family Gruidae. Because of its short and round body shape, it floats on the water like a gourd, so it is also called water hyacinth. It breeds and hibernates in slow-flowing lakes, ponds, swamps and rivers, often moving alone or in p...

Pavo cristatus
Pavo cristatus
Features:The whole body is pure white without any other colors, and it is a variant of the blue peacock.
The scientific name of the white peacock is Pavo cristatus. It generally refers to a variant of the wild blue peacock bred under artificial breeding. It is rare and is an extremely precious ornamental bird. However, after artificial domestication, it has reached a state of self-sustaining population...

Goura victoria
Victoria Crowned Pigeon,Goura victoria,Victoria Crowned-pigeon
Features:The largest pigeon in the world
Victoria Crowned Pigeon (scientific name: Goura victoria) is also known as Victoria Crowned-pigeon in English. Male and female are the same color. It has the most gorgeous and beautiful crest among birds. It is also the most colorful and beautiful pigeon. It is the largest member of the domestic pig...

Calidris pygmaea
Calidris pygmaea,Shoveler,Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Features:The beak is black, with a flat base and a shovel-shaped tip. Because its beak looks like a small black spoon, it is called "the bird with its own rice spoon".
Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeds in the tundra, and is more common in coastal wetlands during migration and wintering. If the first clutch of eggs is lost in the early breeding period, a second clutch of eggs will be laid, so conservationists are allowed to collect the first clutch of eggs for artifici...

Emberiza koslowi
Tibetan Bunting,Emberiza koslowi,
Features:It has a distinctive bright red chestnut back, a black band on the upper chest, and a solid grey under chest.
Tibetan Bunting is a small songbird with no subspecies.Tibetan Bunting usually moves alone or in pairs, and forms small groups in winter. It hides when seeing people approaching. Although it flies at a very low altitude, it is not easy to observe. They move quickly in the bushes, often jumping from...

Yellow-breasted Bunting
Yellow-breasted Bunting,Yellow bile, Java sparrow, yellow belly sac, yellow bean, wheat sparrow, old ironback, golden bunting, white-shouldered bunting, yellow-breasted bunting
Features:The neck and chest are crossed by a chestnut brown band, the undertail coverts are almost pure white, and the rest of the lower body is bright yellow
Yellow-breasted Bunting is a small songbird with two subspecies.Yellow-breasted Buntings often move alone or in pairs during the breeding season, but prefer to gather in groups during the non-breeding season, especially during migration and winter, when they gather in large groups of hundreds to tho...

Emberiza jankowskii
Emberiza jankowskii,Jankowski's Bunting,Rufous-backed Bunting,Red-bellied Sparrow
Features:The lower body is dirty white or grayish white, with a distinct heart-shaped chestnut spot in the center of the abdomen
The foreign name of the Chestnut-bellied Bunting is Jankowski's Bunting, a small songbird with no subspecies.Most chestnut-bellied buntings wander around in winter, reaching as far as Harbin in China in the north and occasionally as far as Shenyang and Beidaihe in the south. Only a few stay in t...

Latoucheornis siemsseni
Latoucheornis siemsseni,Slaty Bunting
Features:The beak is conical and thinner than that of birds in the finch family.
Slaty Bunting is a small songbird, endemic to China, with no subspecies.Slaty Bunting usually moves alone, but sometimes forms small groups of 3-5, moving and foraging on the ground, on power lines, or on rocks and young trees on the side of the mountain. It is bold and not afraid of people. It live...