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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.

Calidris pygmaea

Calidris pygmaea

Calidris pygmaea,Shoveler,Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeds in the tundra, and is more common in coastal w···

Emberiza koslowi

Emberiza koslowi

Tibetan Bunting,Emberiza koslowi,

Tibetan Bunting is a small songbird with no subspecies.Tibetan Bunting usual···

Yellow-breasted Bunting

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

Yellow-breasted Bunting is a small songbird with two subspecies.Yellow-breas···

Emberiza jankowskii

Emberiza jankowskii

Emberiza jankowskii,Jankowski's Bunting,Rufous-backed Bunting,Red-bellied Sparrow

The foreign name of the Chestnut-bellied Bunting is Jankowski's Bunting,···

Latoucheornis siemsseni

Latoucheornis siemsseni

Latoucheornis siemsseni,Slaty Bunting

Slaty Bunting is a small songbird, endemic to China, with no subspecies.Slat···

Loxia curvirostra

Loxia curvirostra

Loxia curvirostra,Common Crossbill,Crossbill, Green Crossbill

Common Crossbill, also known as Common Crossbill, is a small swallow with 19···

Carpodacus roseus

Carpodacus roseus

Carpodacus roseus,Pallas's Rosefinch,Tit

Pallas's Rosefinch, also known as Pallas's Rosefinch, has two subspe···

Carpodacus roborowskii

Carpodacus roborowskii

Carpodacus roborowskii,Tibetan Rosefinch,Tibetan Vermilion Bird, Tibetan Vermilion Bird

Tibetan Rosefinch is a high mountain and plateau desert bird with no subspec···

Carpodacus sillemi

Carpodacus sillemi

Carpodacus sillemi,Sillem's Rosefinch,White-rumped rosefinch, White-rumped ridgefinch, Red-headed ridgefinch, Salem rosefinch

Brown-headed Rosefinch, also known as Sillem's Rosefinch in English, is ···

Prunella koslowi

Prunella koslowi

Prunella koslowi,Mongolian Accentor,Desert Pipit,

The Helan Mountain Rock Pipit, also known as the Mongolian Accentor, is a sm···

Niltava grandis

Niltava grandis

Large Niltava,Niltava grandis

The foreign name of the large niltava is Large Niltava, and there are 4 subs···

Niltava davidi

Niltava davidi

Niltava davidi,Fujian Niltava,Fujian Flycatcher

The foreign name of the brown-bellied great flycatcher is Fujian Niltava, an···

Rhinomyias brunneatus

Rhinomyias brunneatus

White-gorgetted Jungle Flycatcer,Rhinomyias brunneatus,Rhinomyias brunneata

White-throated Jungle Flycatcer is also known as White-gorgetted Jungle Flyc···

Saxicola insignis

Saxicola insignis

Saxicola insignis,Hodgson's Stonechat,Ho's Tree Rock Bird

The white-throated stonechat is also known as Hodgson's Stonechat. It is···

Phoenicurus alaschanicus

Phoenicurus alaschanicus

Phoenicurus alaschanicus,Ala Shan Redstart

Helanshan Redstart, also known as Ala Shan Redstart, is a medium-sized redst···

Tarsiger hyperythrus

Tarsiger hyperythrus

Tarsiger hyperythrus,Rufous-breasted Bush Robi

Rufous-breasted Bush Robin, also known as Rufous-breasted Bush Robin, is a b···

Luscinia megarhynchos

Luscinia megarhynchos

Luscinia megarhynchos,Common NightingaleNightingale,Night Robin

Xinjiang Nightingale is a small bird of the family Flycatcher and the genus ···

Luscinia svecica

Luscinia svecica

Luscinia svecica,Bluethroat,Bluethroat, Bluegrass, Bluethroat, Bluethroat, Blue-throated

Bluethroat, also known as Bluethroat in English, has 10 subspecies.Bluethroa···

Luscinia pectardens

Luscinia pectardens

Luscinia pectardens,Firethroat

The Firethroat, also known as the Golden-breasted Robin, is a species of bir···

Luscinia obscura

Luscinia obscura

Luscinia obscura,Calliope obscura,Black-throated Robin,Blackthroat,nightingale

Blackthroat, foreign name Blackthroat, no subspecies.Regarding the taxonomic···

Calliope calliope

Calliope calliope

Calliope calliope,Siberian Rubythroat,Siberian robin, red-throated robin, red-throated robin, red-necked robin, robin

The Siberian Rubythroat is a songbird of the class Aves and family Flycatche···