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Egretta sacra

Egretta sacra

Egretta sacra,Pacific Reef-egret,Pacific Reef Heron, Eastern Reef Egret

Features:Strong territorial awareness

Pacific Reef-egret is a medium-sized wading bird with two subspecies.Pacific Reef-egret is a species with a high sense of territory. Most of them move alone, sometimes in pairs or in small groups as a family unit, occupying a small reef or coast. It usually only appears on rocky shores, often standi...

Ardea insignis

Ardea insignis

Ardea insignis,White-bellied Heron,Imperial Heron

Features:Timid and alert, flies away when seeing people

White-bellied Heron is a large migratory wading bird with no subspecies.White-bellied Heron is a migratory species. It often moves alone or in small groups of 4-5. It is timid and alert, and will fly away when it sees people. Although the flapping of its wings is slow during flight, the speed is ver...

Gorsachius goisagi

Gorsachius goisagi

Gorsachius goisagi,Japanese Night-heron,Chestnut-headed Night Bittern, Chestnut-headed Tiger Bittern, Heron

Features:A short, brown heron.

The Japanese Night-heron is a migratory bird that breeds in Japan. Except for some that stay in the southern part of the breeding grounds to overwinter, most of them migrate to Taiwan, China and the Philippines to overwinter. During migration, some of them pass through Shanghai, Hong Kong, Fujian an...

Gorsachius magnificus

Gorsachius magnificus

Gorsachius magnificus,White-eared Night-heron,Hainan night bittern, Hainan tiger bittern, white-eared night heron

Features:It is listed as one of the 30 most endangered birds in the world. It is extremely rare and is known as "the most mysterious bird in the world."

Hainan bittern is called White-eared Night-heron in foreign language. It is similar in shape and size to a heron. It is a medium-sized wading bird with no subspecies differentiation.Hainan bittern is partly resident and partly migratory. They usually hide during the day and come out at night, especi...

Ixobrychus minutus

Ixobrychus minutus

Ixobrychus minutus,Little Bittern

Features:Can swim in water, but is extremely clumsy

Little Bittern, also known as Little Bittern in English, is a small wading bird with 5 subspecies.Little Bitterns move in pairs during the breeding season, in family activities in the late breeding period, and mostly move alone at other times. It often walks along the shore of the water with big str...

Platalea minor

Platalea minor

Platalea minor,Black-faced Spoonbill,Black-faced Spoonbill, Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Spoonbill, Little Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Goose

Features:The forehead, throat, face, eye area and eye sockets are all black, and blend into the black of the mouth.

Black-faced Spoonbill is a medium-sized wading bird with no subspecies.The Black-faced Spoonbill looks very similar to the White Spoonbill, and they are often confused in the wild. It is slightly smaller than the white spoonbill, and its feathers are all snow-white. In summer, there is a long hair-l...

Platalea leucorodia

Platalea leucorodia

Platalea leucorodia,Eurasian Spoonbill,Spoonbilled Heron, Spoonbilled Heron

Features:The mouth is long, straight, flat and wide like a pipa

The Eurasian Spoonbill is a large wading bird with three subspecies.The populations of Eurasian Spoonbill that breed in northern China are all summer migrants. They migrate from the southern wintering grounds to the northern breeding grounds in spring from early to late April, and migrate south in a...

Plegadis falcinellus

Plegadis falcinellus

Plegadis falcinellus,Glossy Ibis

Features:Good at flying, with green and purple upper body

The Glossy Ibis, also known as the Glossy Ibis in English, is a dark chestnut ibis with a shimmering color. It looks like a large dark curlew and has no subspecies.When flying, the painted ibis stretches its head and neck forward, and its feet extend behind its tail feathers. It mainly relies on the...

Nipponia nippon

Nipponia nippon

Nipponia nippon,JapaneseCrestedIbis ,Crested IbisAsian Crested Ibis, Japanese Crested Ibis,,Ibis sinensis(synonym)、Ibis nippon(synonym),Crested Ibis、Asian Crested Ibis、Japanese Crested Ibis

Features:Known as the "Oriental Gem" among birds

The foreign names of Crested Ibis, Asian Crested Ibis, Japanese Crested Ibis, anciently known as Crested Ibis and Red Crested Ibis, Crested Ibis is a species endemic to East Asia, with no subspecies.The crested ibis is relatively solitary and quiet. It does not sing except when taking off. It often...

Pseudibis davisoni

Pseudibis davisoni

Pseudibis davisoni,White-shouldered Ibis,Oriental Black Ibis

Features:The sound when taking off from the ground is strange and characteristic

White-shouldered Ibis is called White-shouldered Ibis in foreign language. There are two subspecies of black ibis, and most of them are Burmese subspecies active in my country.The call of White-shouldered Ibis when taking off from the ground is strange and characteristic, especially in the breeding...

Threskiornis melanocephalus

Threskiornis melanocephalus

Threskiornis melanocephalus,Black-headed Ibis,White Ibis

Features:It is one of the world's endangered species.

Black-headed Ibis is a large wading bird.Black-headed Ibis usually moves in small groups, and sometimes they are seen alone by the water or on the grass. It is active during the day, and is silent when active. Usually, its calls are almost unheard, and it walks very lightly and calmly. When flying,...

Lesser Adjutant

Lesser Adjutant

Leptoptilos javanicus

Features:When flying, it does not stretch its neck forward like other storks, but instead pulls its head down to its shoulders.

Lesser Adjutant, also known as Lesser Adjutant in English, is a large and bulky wading bird with no subspecies.The bald stork mainly feeds on fish, frogs, reptiles, mollusks, crabs, crustaceans, locusts, grasshoppers, lizards, rodents, chicks and insects, and occasionally eats animal carcasses. It o...

White Stork

White Stork

Ciconia ciconia,red-billed white, European white stork, western white stork

Features:The feathers are mainly white, with black feathers on the wings. The wings are long and wide, and can glide.

White Stork is a large wading bird, which is the common name for European white stork and Oriental white stork. There are three subspecies, namely: European white stork Central Asian subspecies, European white stork nominate subspecies, and Oriental white stork.White storks often move in groups exce...

Ciconia nigra

Ciconia nigra

Black stork, black stork, pot stork

Features:Beautiful body, bright color, agile movement, alert temperament

Black Stork is a large wading bird with no subspecies.The black stork is a migratory bird, but most of them stay in Spain, and only a few pass through the Strait of Gibraltar to West Africa for wintering; the populations that breed in South Africa do not migrate either, but only spread around after...

Painted stork

Painted stork

Mycteria leucocephala

Features:Beautiful feathers and graceful posture

Painted Stork is also known as White-headed Stork in English. There is no subspecies differentiation.White-headed Stork usually breeds in groups in water and bushes. It feeds by the waterside of ponds, lakes and rivers. It moves slowly. During the day, it often stands in one place for a long time wi...

Synthliboramphus wumizusume

Synthliboramphus wumizusume

Synthliboramphus wumizusume,Japanese Murrelet, Crested Murrelet,Mérgulo japonés,Crested auklet

Features:The cry sounded like a shrill whistle

The Japanese Murrelet is a small seabird with characteristics typical of small puffins, without subspecies.The crested flat-billed puffin is a rare stray bird and winter migratory bird in China. Often in small groups. Frequent surface swimming and diving. When in danger, they dive and flee. The sink...

Chlidonias niger

Chlidonias niger

Chlidonias niger

Features:The mouth is long and pointed black, and the feet are reddish-brown

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...

Thalasseus bernsteini

Thalasseus bernsteini

Thalasseus bernsteini,Chinese Crested Tern,Sterna bernsteini,Crested tern with black bill

Features:It is the rarest of the gull species and one of the most endangered bird species in the world, with a global population of about 100

The Chinese Crested Tern is a medium-sized waterbird with no subspecies.The Chinese crested tern is a summer migrant in northeastern China and a winter migrant in southern China. Every year from April to September, these mysterious seabirds arrive at the Eel Beach wetland at the mouth of the Minjian...

Sterna bergiii

Sterna bergiii

Thalasseus bergii,Great Crested Tern

Features:Crested, black on top of head and crown feathers in summer, white on top of head and gray on crown feathers in winter

The Great Crested Tern has six subspecies.Large crested terns are resident birds and often travel in flocks. They frequently fly over the sea, with their mouths pointing straight down, their wings stirring slowly, and sometimes soaring in the air, where they can search for and find underwater fish....

Larus saundersi

Larus saundersi

Larus saundersi,Saunders's Gull,Chinese Black-headed Gull,Samson's gull. Wandering gull

Features:Xia Yu has a black head, white star-moon spots above and below the eyes, and is extremely conspicuous on the black head

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...

Small Pratincole

Small Pratincole

Glareola lactea,Small Pratincole,

Features:The mouth is large and black, with a small red spot at the base, and the feet are blackish-brown or gray-black

Small Pratincole is a small waterside bird with no subspecies.The plover often moves in groups, is agile and fast in flight, and is most active at dusk, hunting with swifts and bats. Until dark, still running on the ground for food. The food is mainly insects, and sometimes small crustaceans and mol...