Songbirds

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...

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 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，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，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...

Loxia curvirostra,Common Crossbill,Crossbill, Green Crossbill

Features：Both sexes have large, pointed, crossed mouths

Common Crossbill, also known as Common Crossbill, is a small swallow with 19 subspecies.Common Crossbill wanders in winter and some birds migrate in groups. It is sexually active and likes to gather in groups. Except for the breeding period, it moves alone or in pairs. In other seasons, it gathers i...

Carpodacus roseus,Pallas's Rosefinch,Tit

Features：With beautiful feathers, pleasant singing voice, and easy to raise and tame, it is one of the most common cage birds in China.

Pallas's Rosefinch, also known as Pallas's Rosefinch, has two subspecies.Except for the breeding season, the Northern Redbirds usually live in groups in other seasons, but the groups are not large, with small groups of 5-8 or more than 10 birds. Sometimes they are seen in mixed groups and fo...

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

Features：The male bird has a deep red head with a bright glow, a dark red throat with white spots, a grayish white back, and rose-red feather tips on each feather, forming many stripes.

Tibetan Rosefinch is a high mountain and plateau desert bird with no subspecies.Tibetan Rosefinch is a resident bird. It moves alone or in pairs, and in autumn, it also moves and forages on the ground in family groups or small groups. It is good at running on the ground and rarely sings. It mainly f...

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

Features：The head to the back of the neck is tea yellow and osmanthus red, and the back is dirty gray

Brown-headed Rosefinch, also known as Sillem's Rosefinch in English, is a small bird with no subspecies.Similar species of Brown-headed Rosefinch, Alpine Sparrow, has a smoky gray forehead and head, and a rose-red waist. The lower body is light gray without cinnamon yellow. The difference betwee...