Waterfowl

Pelecanus crispus,Dalmatian Pelican

Features：The neck is often bent into an "S" shape and tucked into the shoulders

The Dalmatian Pelican, whose foreign name is Dalmatian Pelican, is a large white waterbird with no subspecies.Curly-feathered pelicans like to live in groups. The sound is low and hoarse. It likes to live in groups and swim, but it cannot dive and is good at walking on land. The neck is often bent i...

Pelecanus philippensis,Spot-billed Pelican,Pied-billed pelican, pelican, river escaping, goose, gannet, river escaping

Features：The edges of the upper and lower mouth have a row of blue-black spots

Spot-billed Pelican, also known as Spot-billed Pelican, has two subspecies.Spot-billed Pelican usually lives alone or in small groups. It is good at swimming and has strong flying ability. It flaps its wings slowly and powerfully, and often soars over the water. When swimming, the neck is stretched...

Pelecanus onocrotalus,Eastern White Pelican,pelican, troll, gannet, pelican

Features：The beak is long, thick, straight, lead blue, with an orange-yellow sac under the beak.

White Pelican is called Eastern White Pelican in foreign language. It is a large waterfowl with no subspecies.White Pelicans mainly feed on fish. They often live in groups. They are good at flying, swimming, and walking well on the ground. When flying, the head is retracted, the neck is bent into an...

Phalacrocorax pelagicus,Pelagic Cormorant,Black Pelican

Features：Good at cooperation, strong in diving and fishing, and very flexible in water

Pelagic Cormorant is a large water bird with two subspecies.Most of the sea cormorants are resident birds, active near the breeding grounds all year round, and a few populations that breed in the north need to fly to the warm waters in the south to overwinter. The time of migration often depends on...

Phalacrocorax niger

Features：Gentle and not afraid of people

Little Cormorant, a medium-sized cormorant, is much smaller than the general cormorant and has no subspecies.Little Cormorant is relatively docile and not afraid of people. It mainly feeds on fish. The main way of foraging is by diving, hunting for food underwater.Black-necked cormorants breed in va...

Sula leucogaster

Features：Good at flying and swimming, bold in temperament, with loud and rough calls

Brown Booby, also known as Brown Booby, is a waterfowl and large seabird with 5 subspecies.Brown Booby often lives in groups and has strong flying ability. They often continue to glide after flapping their wings for a distance, alternating between the two methods. They are also good at...

Sula sula

Features：Characterized by red feet and white tail, it has three color types: light, dark and intermediate.

Red-footed Booby is a black and white or smoky brown booby with three subspecies.Red-footed Booby is a resident bird and does not migrate long distances. It mainly feeds on fish, especially Spanish mackerel, and also eats squid and crustaceans. Its throat is loose and pouch-like, so it can swallow l...

Sula dactylatra,Masked Booby

Features：It is larger than the red-footed booby and the brown booby, and its young will kill each other.

The Masked Booby is a black and white booby with 6 subspecies.Except for the breeding season, the blue-faced booby spends most of its time at sea. They are good at flying and swimming, often flying in small groups over the sea or swimming on the sea. Sometimes they fly far from the coast in search o...

Fregata ariel

Features：A tireless aerialist

Lesser Frigatebird, also known as Lesser Frigatebird, has three subspecies.Lesser Frigatebird is a resident bird, wandering over long distances during some non-breeding seasons. Like other frigatebirds, the white-spotted frigatebird also has pirate habits, often snatching and forcing other seabirds...

Fregata minor

Features：The male bird has a red throat, which swells into a hemispherical throat sac during the breeding season.

Great Frigatebird is a large seabird with 5 subspecies.The Great Frigatebird is a resident bird, some of which migrate. It is good at flying. It mainly lives in the air. It can fly around in the air for a long time and tirelessly, often circling and soaring in the air like an eagle. It is very flexi...

Fregata andrewsi

Features：Not good at walking on land or swimming, and has a predatory feeding habit

The white-bellied frigatebird is also known as Christmas Island Frigatebrid. It is a tropical marine bird with no subspecies.The white-bellied frigatebird flies extremely fast and agilely, but is not good at walking on land or swimming. It mainly feeds in the air. In addition to being able to chase...

Petrel, albatross, Short-tailed Albatross

Features：Do not approach ships, resident bird, non-migratory

Short-tailed Albatross is a large seabird with no subspecies.Short-tailed Albatross usually moves alone or in pairs. Smaller groups can occasionally be seen in winter or in places where food is particularly abundant. It is good at gliding and often flies over the ocean except during th...

Phoebastria nigripes，Black-footed Albatross

Features：Individual upper and lower tail coverings are white, and all other places are black

The Black-footed Albatross (footed Albatross) is a large seabird of the family Albatross of the order Petrel, footed.The black-footed albatross is very similar to the short-tailed albatross subadult, but the short-tailed albatross subadult beak and feet are not black, there are obvious white spots o...

Sterna acuticauda,Black-bellied Tern

Features：Lower thorax, abdomen, and tail undercover black

The Black-bellied Tern is a small waterbird with no subspecies.Black-bellied terns often fly over the waters. It's very rare to stop. The black-bellies mainly feed on small fish. They also eat shrimp, tadpoles, crustaceans, and insects. Often dive underwater to hunt fish. When food is found in t...

Sterna aurantia,River Tern, Indian River Tern,Yellow-billed tern, Indus Tern

Features：The forehead of summer Yu is black with a green metallic luster, while the forehead of winter Yu is dark white

River Tern is a medium-sized waterfowl with no subspecies.River terns are resident birds. They often live alone or in small groups of 2-3. They fly frequently over rivers and rarely stop. Flying light and agile, slow and leisurely, between the green mountains and green water, after finding food, qui...

Larus relictus,Relict Gull,angler

Features：The upper, lower and posterior edges of the eyes have significant white spots, and the neck is white; Back light gray; Waist, tail cover and tail feathers pure white

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...

Larus minutus,Little Gull,Hydrocoloeus minutus

Features：Summer feather head black, winter feather head white

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-necked grebe, tranche board，Podiceps nigricollis，Black-necked Grebe, Grèbe à cou noir

Features：The wing color is fiery red, the neck is black, and the overall plumage distribution color difference is particularly obvious

The Black-necked Grebe, with 4 subspecies, is a medium-sized water bird.Similarly, the horned grebe has a straight mouth and a flat forehead; The front neck and chest of the summer feather are red, and the feathers behind the eyes are not fanned out but in a family shape. The winter feather below th...

Podiceps auritus,Horned Grebe

Features：Starting from the front of the eyes to the back of the eyes, there is a cluster of golden chestnut feathers on each side extending to the back of the head, forming a double horn shape, hence the name.

Horned Grebe has two subspecies.Horned Grebes move in small groups in winter. It breeds in freshwater areas throughout the northern temperate zone. Parent birds often carry their chicks on their backs when swimming. In winter, it disperses to the south of about 30° north latitude, including coastal...

Podiceps grisegena,Red-necked Grebe,Great red grebe

Features：They stay together for life

pit Grebe (pit) foreign name red-necked grebe, there are 2 subspecies in the world, that is, Red necked Grebe named subspecies P. g. Grisegena (Boddaert, 1783) and the Red Necked Grebe Northern subspecies P. g. holboellii (Reinhardt, 1854). China has only a northern subspecies, which breeds in Heilo...

Asarcornis scutulata,White wing forest duck，White-winged Duck，White-winged Wood Duck，Cairina scutulata

Features：The head and neck were white, covered with black spots, and the wings were covered with white feathers

Cairina scutulata is a white-winged duck with no subspecies.The white-winged duck is classified together with the wart-nosed duck in the genus Periscopus. However, analysis of cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 in mitochondrial DNA and biogeographical distribution patterns indicate that t...