Wading birds

Grus vipio,White-naped Crane, red-faced crane, white-crowned crane, native crane

Features：On the Korean Peninsula, the white-naped crane is seen as a symbol of peace.

White-naped Crane is a large wading bird with no subspecies.White-naped Crane mainly feeds on plant seeds, grass roots, young leaves, young shoots, grains, fish, frogs, lizards, tadpoles, shrimps, mollusks and insects. When feeding, they mainly use their beaks to peck, or use their beaks to first op...

Porphyrio porphyrio,Purple Swamphen, Purple Gallinule, Purple Swamp-Hen,Poule sultane

Features：Purple feathers, flaming red lips

Purple moorhen is called pukeko in foreign language. It is a medium-sized wading bird with 13 subspecies.Purple moorhen often moves in pairs or family groups. It is docile and timid, mostly active in the early morning and dusk, hiding in the reeds during the day. It is noisy when active, making freq...

Grus canadensis,Brown Crane, Canada Crane

Features：The face is white, the forehead and crown are red, and the whole body feathers are gray with brown.

Sandhill Crane is a large wading bird with the largest number of cranes in the world. It is divided into 6 subspecies with a total of more than 800,000 individuals. However, there are about 120 individuals in the Mississippi species and less than 100 individuals in the Cuban subspecies. Both are end...

Grus leucogeranus,Siberian Crane ,Siberian White Crane, Snow Crane,Siberian Crane, Nun Crane, Snow Crane

Features：It symbolizes good luck and longevity in Chinese culture and is the provincial bird of Jiangxi Province.

The Siberian Crane is a large wading bird. Although it is divided into three populations, namely the eastern, central and western populations, it is a monotypic species with no subspecies differentiation. Known as the "living fossil" of birds, there are less than 4,000 of them in the world...

Porzana paykullii,Band-bellied Crake

Features：The upper body is olive brown, the wing coverts have white horizontal stripes, and the front edge of the wings is white when flying.

Band-bellied Crake, whose foreign name is Band-bellied Crake, is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Spotted frogs migrate to Northeast China to breed in mid-to-late April in spring, and migrate away from their breeding grounds in late September and early October in autumn.Spotted frogs often liv...

Zapornia parva,Porzana parva,Little Crake

Features：Green bill, red base, dark green feet

Little Crake is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The frog often moves alone or in family groups. It is good at swimming and diving. It often swims among the reeds and water grass in the pond. Sometimes it also moves outside the reeds or on the water surface far from the shore, especially in th...

Zapornia bicolor,Black-tailed Crake,Amaurornis bicolor,Porzana bicolor,Black-tailed bittern

Features：A medium-sized frog with a distinct chestnut and almost black coloration.

The brown-backed frog is called Black-tailed Crake in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The brown-backed frog is a resident bird. It likes to move in streams with vegetation on one side and open grassland on the other side. Its living habits are very similar to those of the red-footed bittern....

Crex crex,Corncrake, Corn Crake

Features：Its long, rusty-brown wings are a distinctive feature when in flight.

The foreign name of the long-legged rail is Corncrake, Corn Crake, which is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The long-legged rail is a summer migratory bird in China. It migrates to my country in late April in spring and migrates away in October in autumn. Good at hiding, hiding in the grass o...

Coturnicops exquisitus,Swinhoes Yellow Rail

Features：It is the smallest frog in China, not a frog.

The foreign name of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail is Swinhoes Yellow Rail, and there is no subspecies.Some of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail are summer migratory birds, while others are winter migratory birds. In Northeast China, they are mostly summer migratory birds, in the east, they are winter migratory bi...

Tetrax tetrax, Little Bustard,Outarde canepetière, Sisón,Ground

Features：The neck has a white horizontal band and a "V" shaped diagonal band

Little Bustard, also known as Little Bustard in English, is a large bird of the family Bustard, with no subspecies.Little Bustards often gather in large groups during the non-breeding season, sometimes up to several thousand, and are active during the day. Male birds in the wintering group have coll...

Spotted Bustard、Chlamydotis macqueeni,Macqueen's Bustard

Features：The bustard is smaller than the larger one, and looks like a chicken, but has only three toes.

Houbara Bustard, also known as Macqueen's Bustard, has no subspecies. A large ground-dwelling bird, once a subspecies of the Ruffed-jawed Bustard, it has been reclassified as an independent species.Like other bustards, the Houbara Bustard is a bird of open and desert areas. In Xinjiang, it mainl...

Otis tarda,Great Bustard,Avutarda, Avutarda Común,Додук, Մեծ արոս, Дуадақ,Ground quail, old brocade, lone leopard, wild goose

Features：It is one of the two largest species of bustard birds (the other is the Grey-necked Bustard).

The Great Bustard has two subspecies, both of which are distributed in China. The common subspecies breeds in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Tongyu and Zhenlai, Jilin, northwest Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia. It hibernates in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Hubei and other provinc...

Anthropoides virgo,Demoiselle Crane,Lady Crane

Features：There is a tuft of white ear feathers behind the eye that is very eye-catching. There are relatively few of them in my country, and it is a very rare and uncommon bird.

The Demoiselle Crane is the smallest crane. It is blue-gray in color, with black eyes, sides of the head, throat and front neck. There is a white ear tuft behind the eyes that is very eye-catching. The black feathers on the front neck are extended and hang on the chest. The feet are black, and the w...

Grus japonensis,Red-crowned Crane, Japanese Crane, Manchurian Crane,Crane, Red-crowned Crane, White Crane, Mantilla

Features：The legendary crane, known as the "God of the Wetlands", is often painted together with pine trees as a symbol of longevity.

The red-crowned crane is a large wading bird with a bright red head and distinct black and white bodies. It has very distinct features and is easy to identify. The skeleton of the red-crowned crane is hard on the outside and hollow on the inside. It is 7 times stronger than human skeletons. When mig...

Grus grus,Common Crane,Thousand-year-old crane, black crane, sweet potato crane

Features：The grey crane is the most numerous and widely distributed species of crane in the world, with an existing population of over 700,000.

Grey cranes are large wading birds with obvious identification characteristics in the wild. They have very long necks and legs, and their feathers are mostly gray. The bare skin on the top of the head is bright red, and there are sparse black hair-like short feathers. There is a gray-white vertical...

Grus monacha,Hooded Crane,Pot Crane, Black Crane, Nun Crane

Features：The white "head" is very conspicuous, and most of the body is gray-black, making it easy to identify.

The white-headed crane is a large wading bird with a long neck, beak, and legs. It is gentle, alert, and timid. It has a white gray coat and a snow-white neck. It migrates in spring from late March to late April and arrives at its breeding grounds in late April and early May. It migrates in autumn f...

Grus nigricollis,Black-necked Crane, Tibetan Crane, Grulla Cuellinegra,,Tibetan crane, wild goose, black goose, dry goose

Features：The only crane in the world that lives and breeds on the plateau. It is known as the "bird panda"

Black-necked cranes are large flying wading birds. Except for the breeding season, they often move in pairs, individuals or family groups. In other seasons, they move in groups, especially in winter in wintering grounds, often forming large groups of dozens of individuals. During the wintering, they...

Porphyrio indicus,Black-backed Swamphen,Rodhoue Purple Swamphen, Reunion White Dodo

Features：The whole body is covered with purple feathers, and it looks beautiful.

Purple moorhen is a bird of the family Raccoon of the order Gruiformes. It is purple in color and lives by the water all year round. It is of medium size, with a short tail and a very bright red crown on its head. It looks very similar to a domestic chicken, so it is named purple moorhen. However, t...

Features：The Great crested grebe is a medium-sized water bird with a slender,

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Features：a group of large water birds. Known for their distinctive long bills and large, pouched throats

Table of ContentsPhysical CharacteristicsHabitat and EnvironmentBehavior, Lifestyle, and DietGeographic Distribution, Migration Routes, and HabitsReproduction, Parenting, and LifespanSubspecies and VariationsConservation StatusProtection LevelsPopulation TrendsPredators of PelicansArt and Cult...

Ardea herodias

Features：It is easily recognized by its bluish-gray plumage, long legs, and dagger-like yellow bill. The heron’s long, S-shaped neck

Species Scientific ClassificationThe Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is classified as follows:Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataClass: AvesOrder: PelecaniformesFamily: ArdeidaeGenus: ArdeaSpecies: Ardea herodiasThis classification places the Great Blue Heron in the Ardeidae family, which includes v...