The Common Merganser is the largest and most widely distributed piscivorous Merganser. It forages by diving. It can dive for up to half a minute and forages during the day. It often swims on the calm lake surface while diving frequently to forage. It mainly feeds on small fish, but also preys on aqu...
Red-breasted mergansers are medium-sized fish-eating ducks with long, thin, hooked beaks that prey on fish. The silky crest feathers are long and pointed. The breeding season of Red-breasted mergansers is from May to July. They usually form pairs during migration in late winter and spring, and some...
The white-headed hardtail duck is a very typical gregarious water duck. It breeds in Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang and is occasionally seen in Honghu Lake in Hubei. It is a summer migratory bird in Xinjiang and an occasionally stray bird in Hubei. It mainly forages by diving, and often sticks its he...
The Lesser Pochard is a migratory bird that forms a flock of 25-50 birds when migrating. Most of the wintering migration flight routes are through the central Mississippi, along Mexico and Florida to the Gulf Coast. Some go to Central America, the Caribbean and northern Colombia, and a few winter mi...
The ugly duck lives and inhabits streams, deep recesses between rocks and bushes, and tree holes. In spring, it migrates to the northern breeding grounds from May to early June, and in autumn, it migrates to the wintering grounds from mid-to-late September to mid-to-late October, often in small grou...
The Chinese merganser is a winter guest in Suzhou, China. In late autumn, it migrates from the north to the reed ponds in the Taihu Lake Basin to avoid the cold and overwinter. Usually, the Chinese merganser moves in a family manner and only gathers in large groups before migration. They merge with...
As a male white-eyed pochard, it is born with a pair of bean-sized white eyes, which are particularly prominent against the dark chestnut head. Therefore, whenever people see male white-eyed pochards, they are always "rolling their eyes", which gives people a sense of "looking at life...
Spot-billed duck is also called valley duck, yellow-billed duck, and fire duck. Spot-billed duck is one of the ancestors of Chinese domestic ducks, and its wild population is relatively abundant.Spot-billed ducks build their nests in grass, bushes or bamboo bushes near waters. Grass stems, grass lea...
You can often see flocks of wild geese flying freely in the sky, sometimes in a straight line or in a V-shape.There are 5 subspecies of white-fronted geese in the world, and 2 subspecies are distributed in my country. Both are winter migratory birds. The nominate subspecies winters in western and so...
Bar-headed geese - they are the highest flying birds in the world. At an altitude of more than 9,000 meters, it only takes about eight hours to fly over the Himalayas.Incredibly, if the wind is favorable, they can complete a one-way flight of more than 1,600 kilometers in a few days. Its average fli...
In my country, swans are regarded as a symbol of beauty, auspiciousness, nobility and holiness. The black swan is the most beautiful species in the swan family. Compared with the white swan, the black swan is more elegant, rational and wise.Observing the black swan up close is like appreciating a wo...
There is a kind of "duck" that is slightly larger than a domestic duck, but has golden feathers all over its body. In fact, this is not a domestic duck, but a Ruddy Shelduck, which is a kind of bird.Speaking of lovebirds, everyone will think of the poem "I wish to be lovebirds in the...