Branta bernicla，Brent Goose

Features：Medium sized dark grey goose. Black beak and feet, white undertail feathers.

Brants are typical cold-water Marine birds, tolerant of cold, and prefer to live in bays, harbors and estuaries. Don't mix with other species. Flies low near the water surface and lives in coastal harbors during high tides. Foraging on coastal pastures. Mainly to grass or aquatic plants buds, le...

Big green head, big red leg duck, official duck, on duck, hemp duck, green side，Anas platyrhynchos，Mallard，Common Mallard

Features：Male bird head, neck green, with bright metallic luster; Female black from head to occipital, with brownish yellow feather margin.

Mallard ducks are large ducks, similar in size and appearance to domestic ducks. In addition to the breeding period, they often move in groups, especially during migration and wintering, often integrating tens, hundreds or even thousands of large groups. Or swim on the water, or roost on the beach o...

Luzon duck，Anas luzonica，Philippine Duck

Features：Black top hat, distinctive head pattern.

The brown necked duck (Anas luzonica) belongs to the family Anatidae. It is commonly found in swamps, rivers, lakes, ponds and estuaries. It sounds like a mallard but rougher. Most of the activities are in the wild grass in the marsh area near the water. It mainly floats on the surface of the water...

Anas poecilorhyncha,Indian Spot-billed Duck,Indo-burmese spotted duck

Features：The upper mouth is black, the tip yellow, the feet orange yellow, the forehead to the pillow brown, easy to recognize.

Mallard, a similar species of Indian grouper, has a similar size, but its body color is obviously different. The male mallard duck has a green head and looks black from a distance, while the female duck has a darker head and a lighter body colour, so it is easy to recognize when flying or at a great...

Shovel duck, Broad-billed duck，Anas clypeata，Northern Shoveler

Features：The mouth is large and flat, with the tip expanded into a shovel shape, and its shape is very special.

Shoveler ducks often travel in pairs or small groups of 3-5, and can also be seen moving alone. They also gather in larger groups during the migration season. They often move and forage in muddy ponds and shallow waters. They often roam in shallow waters near the water, and are extremely cautious. I...

Pintail duck, long-tailed duck, long-tailed duck, rifle duck, middle duck, northern pintail duck，Anas acuta，Northern Pintail

Features：The male bird is blue-gray in color, while the female bird is black in color.

Pintail duck is a medium-sized waterfowl of the class Aves and the family Anatidae, belonging to the family of water ducks. It likes to live in groups, especially in the migration season and winter, often in large groups of dozens to hundreds of individuals. It moves and rests mostly in the waters n...

Spatula querquedula,Anas querquedula，Garganey,Ducklings, little stone ducks, brook ducks

Features：The eyebrow lines are white, wide and long, extending all the way to the back of the head, and are extremely eye-catching.

White-browed ducks often move in pairs or small groups, and also gather in large groups during migration and wintering. They are timid and alert, often moving and foraging in places covered by water plants. If there is a sound, they will immediately rush out of the water and rise straight up. They f...

Ba duck, black-rimmed duck, spectacled duck, yellow-tipped duck, king duck, shaking duck, Yuan duck，Sibirionetta formosa，Baikal Teal

Features：The face is spotted with yellow, green, black, white and other colors, which is very eye-catching.

The Mandarin duck is a kind of duck that likes to gather in groups, especially in winter, and often gathers in large groups, and often mixes with other ducks. Individuals are slightly larger than green-winged teals, and slightly smaller than pintail ducks. The voice is noisy, and the call is loud an...

Little duck, little teal, little mallard, duck, duckling, clam duck,Anas crecca，Common Teal，Green-winged，Teal Eurasian Teal

Features：There is a wide green band on both sides of the head starting from the eyes and extending to the sides of the neck, which is very eye-catching.

Green-winged ducks like to gather in groups, especially during the migration season and winter, often gathering in large groups of hundreds or even thousands of them. They fly fast, agile and powerful, with fast and loud wings flapping, and their heads stretched forward, often in a straight line or...

Anascaro linensis,Anas carolinensis

Features：The American Green-winged Duck is similar in size to the native Green-winged Duck, but differs in the distribution of color patches on its feathers.

The American Green-winged Duck (Anascaro linensis) was discovered by birdwatchers Philip Hyde and Paul Hyde at Dongtan, Nanhui, Shanghai, and is a new record for Shanghai birds.The American Green-winged Duck inhabits shallow lakes, wetlands, ponds and winding rivers, feeding on aquatic invertebrates...

Marmaronetta angustirostris，Marbled Teal，Marbled Duck

Features：There is a short, hanging crest on the back of the head, which is most obvious in the male bird.

The Clouded Duck often moves in small groups. It often gathers in large groups in some important waters during the non-breeding season. It is active in the early morning and dusk. It spends most of the day floating in the emergent plants or perching on branches that are partially submerged in water....

Big red head, red-billed pochard，Netta rufina，Red-crested Pochard

Features：Large duck that is a heavy, slow flyer.

Red-billed Pochards are slow-witted and not very afraid of people. They are not good at calling, and often move in pairs or small groups, sometimes in large groups of hundreds. When resting, they often rest in groups on the sandbanks and islands in the middle of the lake with water plants, and they...

American Rock Goose，Aythya valisineria，Canvasback

Features：A large diving duck, coloured like the red-headed duck, but with a characteristically high head.

Sailback ducks are migratory birds. They migrate regularly between their breeding grounds and wintering grounds in spring and autumn. They often gather in large groups during migration, forming a "V" formation. They fly at a high altitude and occasionally drift to China.They often move in...

Red-headed duck, sandpiper, sandpiper，Aythya ferina，Common Pochard，Pochard，Northern Pochard

Features：It rarely sings and is a deep-water bird that is good at diving by folding its wings.

Commonly seen in open waters with reeds and good cover, they live in open lakes and reservoirs during the winter. They often form small groups of 10-30 or mixed groups with Crested Pochards, Shovelers, etc. They often move in groups, especially in large groups during the migration season and winter....

White-eyed duck, Oriental white-eye duck, Mallard duck，Aythya baeri，Baer's Pochard

Features：It rarely sings and is a deep-water bird that is good at diving by folding its wings.

The blue-headed duck is a migratory bird. It migrates from the wintering grounds in the south to the north for breeding in mid-March every year; it starts to migrate to the south in mid-October in autumn, and a few migrate as late as early November. During migration, it gathers in small groups of mo...

Marsh duck, crested duck, black-headed duck，Aythya fuligula，Tufted Duck

Features：A deep-water bird with a crest on its head, good at diving with its wings folded

The Crested Pochard is a migratory bird. Every year in late March and early April, it migrates from its wintering grounds in the south to North China and southern Northeast China, and arrives at Changbai Mountain in the eastern part of Northeast China and Heilongjiang Province in the northern part o...

Bell duck, Oriental clam duck，Aythya marila，Greater Scaup，Scaup

Features：There is no crest, and there is a wide white ring at the base of the beak.

The Spotted Duck is a migratory bird. It begins to migrate to China for wintering in early October every autumn and leaves in early April to early May in spring. It moves in pairs during the breeding season and in groups during the non-breeding season. Sometimes it also moves in mixed groups with ot...

Eider duck，Polysticta stelleri，Przevalski's Partridge

Features：The males and females are dimorphic and easy to identify. They are small, nearly black sea ducks.

Little eider ducks like to live in groups. Except for the period of nesting and laying eggs, they live in groups almost all year round, especially during molting, migration and wintering, often in large groups of thousands or even tens of thousands. They fly fast and lightly, flap their wings quickl...

Strange-billed duck, Scoter，Melanitta fusca，White-winged Scoter，Velvet Scoter

Features：All black, love diving

The Spotted-faced Muscovy is a medium-sized, dark, short, flat sea duck. It belongs to the diving duck family. It can dive underwater for considerable distances, up to 5 to 10 meters deep, sometimes even more. It likes to gather in groups, often flying in small groups, generally migrating short dist...

American black duck，Melanitta nigra，Black Scoter，Common Scoter

Features：It is a short, fat, dark-colored sea duck with a large yellow tumor at the base of its beak.

The Black Sea Muscovy Duck likes to gather in groups, and almost always moves in groups throughout the year. Sometimes males and females gather separately. Female birds usually winter further north. They often live on the water surface near the coast and islands, and are sometimes seen in inland fre...

Sharp-tailed duck, long-tailed duck, long-tailed duck, gun-towed duck, Chinese duck，Clangula hyemalis，American Wigeon

Features：A medium-sized grey, black and white duck with long central tail feathers. It is a very rare winter migrant.

Long-tailed ducks begin to migrate to their breeding grounds in early March. A small number of them are still seen in Dalian Bay, China in mid-March. In some places in the Far East, they continue to migrate northward until mid-May. They often migrate in small groups. When they first arrive at their...