Waterfowl

White merganser duck, small merganser duck, Sichuan merganser duck, Panda duck，Mergellus albellus，Smew

Features：A duck that looks a bit like a panda

Merganser maculata is Smew, no subspecies.In spring, a large number of March-headed mergansers migrate north from their southern wintering grounds from mid-March to early April, while a small number migrate as late as early to mid-April. Autumn begins to move away from the breeding grounds in early...

Chicken head and duck，Tadorna cristata，Crested Shelduck

Features：Dimorphism. The male has a black-green crown, the female has white eye circles, and the head has prominent feathers.

The crested duck (Tadorna cristata) is a group of birds of the family Anatidae, inhabiting lakes, rivers, ponds, salt ponds, estuarine marshes, and grasslands. Mixing with other duck species. They live in pairs during breeding period and in family groups and small groups during non-breeding period....

Green edge boy, beautiful scenery，Anas strepera，Gadwall

Features：The male has a black bill and orange-yellow feet. The female beak is orange and the peak black.

Anas strepera (Anas strepera) is a medium-sized duck that is slightly smaller than domestic ducks, often living in small flocks, and likes to mingle with other wild ducks. Sex timid and alert, when there is danger immediately rushed out of the water grass. Flying extremely fast, the wings flap fast...

Lapwing, Sickle duck, Flathead duck, early duck, three duck, Sickle feather duck，Anas falcata，Falcated Teal，Falcated Duck

Features：The male is dark chestnut on top, the head and neck are copper-green, and the female is dark brown on top and nape.

Ribbed ducks (Anas falcata) are medium-sized ducks, slightly smaller than domestic ducks, and often live in pairs or small flocks, including large flocks of 10 to dozens of individuals during the winter and migration seasons. Sex timid and alert, during the day more in the open lake, river, sandbank...

Anas penelope，Eurasian Wigeon，European Wigeon，Wigeon,Crane duck, Red duck, Red necked duck, goose duck, sacrificial duck

Features：The male bird has a brown-red head and neck, while the female bird has a dark brown head and nape.

Red-necked ducks are medium-sized ducks, smaller than domestic ducks and about the same size as ribbed ducks. They often move in groups and mix with other ducks except during breeding periods. Good at swimming and diving. Happy often put the tail up, head bent to the chest. The flight is fast and po...

Grape-breasted duck，American Wigeon，Anas americana

Features：The male is easily distinguishable by his broad green eyeliner across the pale head, and the female and young are superficially similar to the red-necked duck.

Green brow duck is a river duck, also known as grape breast duck. Medium sized, much like the red-necked duck but slightly larger. The environment is often the same as that of the red-necked duck. In winter, it is found in lake areas, wetlands, freshwater rivers, lakes and coastal agricultural areas...

Cotton duck, white duck, eight duck, cotton duck，Nettapus coromandelianus，Cotton Pygmy-goose

Features：Cotton lapwing elected Chengdu Bird of the Year 2021.

There are two subspecies of Cotton Pygomy-goose.They often live in pairs or in small groups of a few to more than 20 individuals. Sex is more docile. Good swimmer, also good diver, but generally rarely diving. They usually spend most of their time in the water, not going ashore, but sometimes climbi...

Aix galericulata，Mandarin Duck，Mandarin,Chinese official duck, Uren Hachin, official duck, Pee-bird, Dunmubird

Features：Yuan refers to the male bird, duck refers to the female bird, so the mandarin duck is a compound word, is regarded as a symbol of love

Mandarin Duck, no subspecies.Mandarin ducks migrate to their breeding grounds in the northeast at the end of March and the beginning of April, and leave their breeding grounds in late September and early October. When migrating in groups, often in small groups of 7-8 or more than 10 birds, sometimes...

Branta leucopsis，Barnacle Goose

Features：Similar to barnacle geese, but with a white forehead and entire cheek

It is a typical cold-water Marine bird of medium size, tolerant of cold, and prefers to live in bays, harbors and estuaries. Good at swimming and diving, flying speed is also very fast, flying speed: 60 to 80 kilometers per hour. Sometimes flying in a diagonal, sometimes in a "V" shape, ve...

Branta hutchinsii,Cackling Goose,Small Canada goose, short bill Brant

Features：It is very similar to the Canadian bracken, with a shorter beak and much shorter neck.

The Lesser American Brant is a North American black goose of the genus Brant of the family Anatidae that breeds in northern and central Canada and Alaska. During migration and during wintering, young brants exhibit social behavior. At this time, individuals and families will mix with the Canadian ba...

Snow goose, white goose，Anser caerulescens，Snow Goose，Chen caerulescens

Features：The same shape and color of two sex, pure white body feathers, loyal to love, only one partner for life.

Snow geese are large, individual birds of the genus Amens. They live in groups ranging from a few to thousands of individuals. When flying into an orderly queue, there are a zigzag, herringbone, etc. In monogamy, both sexes participate in the rearing of chicks.During the breeding season, snow geese...

Wild goose, sand goose, gray waist goose, red bill goose, sand goose, yellow bill gray goose，Anser anser，Greylag Goose

Features：The body is large and obese, with a long neck.

Gray geese move in groups, usually consisting of tens, hundreds, or even thousands, except during breeding, especially during migration. He is flexible in walking on the ground, agile in action, and often stands on one foot when resting. Swimming and diving are good, but can not last long, rarely di...

Anser serrirostris,Tundra Bean Goose,Wild geese, wheat geese

Features：Similar to the bean goose, it has a shorter beak

The short-billed bean goose is a species of anseriidae bird that breeds in northern Siberia. The species is considered different from the bean geese by the American Ornithological Society and the International Association of Ornithologists, but the British Ornithological Society considers the two as...

Wild goose, wheat goose，Anser fabalis，Bean goose

Features：Size and shape like a domestic goose.

Wild goose is a large goose, love to cluster, except the breeding period, often move in groups. Especially the migration season, often integrated tens, hundreds, or even thousands of large groups, led by an experienced head goose, the formation is constantly changing, sometimes into a "people...

Cough swan, trumpet swan, yellow-billed swan，Cygnus cygnus，Whooper Swan

Features：It has always been regarded as a symbol of purity, loyalty and nobility

There is no subspecies of Whooper Swan.The four kinds of white whooper swans distributed in the northern hemisphere have long been recognized by people. Due to their white feathers, beautiful body, appealing cry and loyal behavior, the white whooper swan is regarded as a symbol of purity, loyalty an...

Short-billed swans, whistling swans, tundra swans，Cygnus columbianus，Tundra Swan

Features：The neck and beak are slightly shorter than that of a whooper swan, and the body is only slightly smaller

The cygnet, known as Tundra Swan, has three subspecies and is a large waterfowl of the genus Cygnus in the family Anatidae.Cygnets like to cluster, and often show small or family group activities except during the breeding period. They sometimes mingle with whooper swans and move with extreme cautio...

Tumble-nosed swan, mute swan, red-billed swan, Tumble-nosed swan, bright swan, blue Swan，Cygnus olor，Mute Swan

Features：It is the largest flying bird in the anseriidae family

Mute Swan foreign name Mute Swan, no subspecies, is a large swimming bird.Mute swans moved to the south from the end of September to the middle of October for winter, and in the spring, they moved to the north in mid-late February, in small groups and family groups, mostly along lakes, rivers and ot...

Branta ruficollis，Red-breasted Goose

Features：It is a typical cold water Marine bird, tolerant of cold

Red-breasted Goose (no subspecies) is a small wild goose.Brats like to form groups, but do not mix with other geese and ducks, but live alone in large groups, sometimes up to hundreds of individuals. They had a lively disposition, and when they lived with each other, they were always noisy, extremel...

Wild goose，Anser erythropus，Lesser White-fronted Goose

Features：It resembles a white-fronted goose, but has a darker body and shorter feet and mouth

Lesser White-fronted Goose, no subspecies.Small white-fronted geese leave their breeding grounds and migrate to their wintering grounds from early to mid to late September every year, and usually arrive in Northeast China from early to mid to late October. Some arrived in China as early as the end o...

Original goose, with goose, strange goose, black-billed goose, sand goose, grass goose，Anser cygnoides，Swan Goose

Features：It is a large, individual bird of the genus Amaneus

Swan Goose, with no subspecies, is a large waterfowl.From late September to late October every year, a large number of swan geese begin to migrate from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds, and some begin to migrate as early as early to mid-September. Migrations often involve large grou...

Tree duck, Ny duck, Screaming duck，Dendrocygna javanica，Lesser Whistling-duck，Lesser Whistling Duck

Features：Weak in flight, strong in diving

The Lesser Whistling-duck is a small and medium-sized duck with no subspecies.Chestnut duck breeds mainly in the south of China. It is a summer migratory bird in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian regions, some are resident birds, some are sum...