The Black Tern has two subspecies. The call is a short, nasal scream called kyeh, and the liaison is called klit.The black-floating gulls fly lightly and nimbly, with slightly fanned wings, sometimes skimming over the surface of the water, pecking at it with their downward beak. Sometimes soaring ab...
Relict Gull is a medium-sized waterfowl with no subspecies.In 1931, zoologist Ejnar Lonnberg, then director of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, wrote about a number of bird specimens collected in Ejin Banner, China, and referred to the surviving gull only as an Oriental geographic population o...
Little Gull is a small waterfowl with no subspecies.Little gulls are partly summer birds, partly travellers. Often move in groups. It spends most of its time flying above the water. Flying light, agile, flapping very lightly on the wings. It feeds mainly on spineless movers such as insects, insect l...
Black-billed gull Saunders' s Gull, medium water bird, no subspecies.It is said that during the late Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Li Shangyin kept five kinds of rare birds in his garden, one of which was a black-billed gull with a black head and beak and a prominent white semicircle behind its...
Seagulls are the most common seabirds. Even when people mention seabirds, they will naturally think of seagulls first. At the seaside, in the harbor, and on the fishing grounds rich in fish and shrimp, flocks of seagulls are jumping for joy. Some of them are floating leisurely on the water, some are...
In Antarctica, the most impressive animal is naturally the penguin. In the Arctic, it is not the polar bears that are awe-inspiring, but the Arctic terns. Although penguins are friendly and naive, they look a little silly; while arctic terns, although small and exquisite, are strong and power...
All the birds in the Antarctic region are seabirds, and except for the flightless penguins, they are all flying birds. There are more than 30 species of birds that breed in Antarctica. Among them, only snow petrels are indigenous residents, and the others are expatriates from other countries. There are few species of marine birds in the Antarctic region, but the number is considerable, about 65 million. If penguins are included, the total number of seabirds is even more staggering, about 178 mil...