Waterfowl

Golden-eyed duck, Magpie duck, White-faced duck，Bucephala clangula，Common Goldeneye

Features：It has a short and thick beak, a short neck and a pointed tail. These features are very obvious and easy to identify.

The magpie duck is a common wild duck in the eastern coastal areas and inland lakes and swamps of China. It is abundant in number. Since 1986, it has been found that it is common in the Songhua River and Yalu River in Jilin Province, the coast of Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning Province and the lower...

Mergellus albellus,Panda duck, flower-headed saw-billed duck, fish duck, dog-headed merganser, lesser merganser, spotted merganser

Features：It is the smallest and shortest-beaked merganser.

The white merganser, also known as the spotted-headed merganser or panda duck, is a water duck of the Anatidae family and the genus Aglajidae. The male bird has mainly black and white feathers, while the female bird has dark brown upper body and white lower body. It breeds in tree holes or swamp wat...

Oriental Fish Duck，Mergus merganser，Common Merganser

Features：It is the largest species of merganser.

The Common Merganser is the largest and most widely distributed piscivorous Merganser. It forages by diving. It can dive for up to half a minute and forages during the day. It often swims on the calm lake surface while diving frequently to forage. It mainly feeds on small fish, but also preys on aqu...

Black-headed Duck, Brown-headed Duck，Mergus serrator，Red-breasted Merganser

Features：The most common merganser in China

Red-breasted mergansers are medium-sized fish-eating ducks with long, thin, hooked beaks that prey on fish. The silky crest feathers are long and pointed. The breeding season of Red-breasted mergansers is from May to July. They usually form pairs during migration in late winter and spring, and some...

Oxyura leucocephala，White-headed Duck

Features：It is recognized as a globally endangered bird species and is the prototype of Donald Duck in the cartoon.

The white-headed hardtail duck is a very typical gregarious water duck. It breeds in Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang and is occasionally seen in Honghu Lake in Hubei. It is a summer migratory bird in Xinjiang and an occasionally stray bird in Hubei. It mainly forages by diving, and often sticks its he...

Aythya affinis，Lesser Scaup

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

The Lesser Pochard is a migratory bird that forms a flock of 25-50 birds when migrating. Most of the wintering migration flight routes are through the central Mississippi, along Mexico and Florida to the Gulf Coast. Some go to Central America, the Caribbean and northern Colombia, and a few winter mi...

Morning Duck，Histrionicus histrionicus，Harlequin Duck，Harlequin

Features：It has very colorful feathers, resembling the colorful character in Italian pantomime - the harlequin, hence the name.

The ugly duck lives and inhabits streams, deep recesses between rocks and bushes, and tree holes. In spring, it migrates to the northern breeding grounds from May to early June, and in autumn, it migrates to the wintering grounds from mid-to-late September to mid-to-late October, often in small grou...

Scaly-sided Merganser，Mergus squamatus，Chinese Merganser，Scaly-sided Merganser

Features：A species endemic to China, with red beak and legs

The Chinese merganser is a winter guest in Suzhou, China. In late autumn, it migrates from the north to the reed ponds in the Taihu Lake Basin to avoid the cold and overwinter. Usually, the Chinese merganser moves in a family manner and only gathers in large groups before migration. They merge with...

Aptenodytes forsteri

Features：Emperor penguins are the largest of all the different species of penguins.

Emperor penguins mainly live in the sea. They hunt, swim and play in the water. On the one hand, they exercise their bodies well, and on the other hand, they eat and drink enough to conserve their energy for the arrival of the winter breeding season. In winter, emperor penguins have the opportunity...

Pygoscelis adeliae

Features：The Adelie penguin's tail is slightly longer than other penguin species.

The legs of the Adélie penguin are light pink and the soles of the feet are black. Like other penguins, the Adélie penguin is also a good swimmer, and can swim at a speed of up to 15 kilometers per hour. Normally, it swims at a speed of 4-7 kilometers per hour. When the Adélie penguin swims fast,...

White-browed penguin, Gentleman penguin, Gentleman penguin

Features：The Gentoo penguin is the fastest swimmer in the penguin family and can swim at speeds of up to 36 kilometers per hour.

The Gentoo penguin walks on land with a shaky gait, and its long tail swings left and right behind it like sweeping the ground, so its scientific name is "Pygoscelis", which means "broom-like tail".The Gentoo penguin is one of the three members of the genus Pygoscelis. Mitochondr...

pelican, owl, taohe, gannet, bag goose, bag bird

Features：A simple and honest toucan.

Pelicans often live in groups in the wild. In addition to swimming, they spend most of their time on the shore basking in the sun or patiently grooming their feathers. Pelicans have very sharp eyesight and are good at swimming and flying. Even when flying high in the sky, fish swimming in the water...

chinstrap penguin, Police officer penguin, Antarctic penguin, chinstrap penguin, whiskered penguin, chinstrap penguin

Features：There is a black stripe under the neck, like a naval officer's hat band, which makes it look majestic and resolute. The Soviets called it the "Police Officer Penguin".

As penguins that look like police officers, they are also very courageous and are likely to conflict with other penguins, or even fight with them.The breeding colony of chinstrap penguins is huge, usually consisting of more than 100,000 breeding pairs of penguins. Their communication is very complex...

Ferruginous Duck，White-eyed Pochard，Ferruginous Pochard

Features：Pochards are very good at diving, but they do not stay underwater for long. They often move around in waters rich in reeds and aquatic plants and lurk in them.

As a male white-eyed pochard, it is born with a pair of bean-sized white eyes, which are particularly prominent against the dark chestnut head. Therefore, whenever people see male white-eyed pochards, they are always "rolling their eyes", which gives people a sense of "looking at life...

Spot-billed duck, Valley duck, Yellow-billed duck, Fire duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Oriental spot-billed duck,Anas zonorhyncha，Eastern Spot-billed Duck，Chinese Spot-bille

Features：It is named after the characteristics of its mouth. Its mouth is black with a yellow tip. During the breeding season, there is a black spot on the tip of the yellow mouth, like a spot.

Spot-billed duck is also called valley duck, yellow-billed duck, and fire duck. Spot-billed duck is one of the ancestors of Chinese domestic ducks, and its wild population is relatively abundant.Spot-billed ducks build their nests in grass, bushes or bamboo bushes near waters. Grass stems, grass lea...

Wild goose, spotted goose, bright spotted goose，Greater White-fronted，Goose White-fronted Goose

Features：The upper body is mostly gray-brown, with a broad white spot from the base of the upper beak to the forehead, and the lower body is white with black spots.

You can often see flocks of wild geese flying freely in the sky, sometimes in a straight line or in a V-shape.There are 5 subspecies of white-fronted geese in the world, and 2 subspecies are distributed in my country. Both are winter migratory birds. The nominate subspecies winters in western and so...

White-headed goose, Black-headed goose，Bar-headed Goose

Features：The highest flying bird in the world.

Bar-headed geese - they are the highest flying birds in the world. At an altitude of more than 9,000 meters, it only takes about eight hours to fly over the Himalayas.Incredibly, if the wind is favorable, they can complete a one-way flight of more than 1,600 kilometers in a few days. Its average fli...

Black Swan

Features：It is a world-famous ornamental bird.

In my country, swans are regarded as a symbol of beauty, auspiciousness, nobility and holiness. The black swan is the most beautiful species in the swan family. Compared with the white swan, the black swan is more elegant, rational and wise.Observing the black swan up close is like appreciating a wo...

Yellow duck, yellow duck, duck, red goose,Ruddy Shelduck

Features：What the ancients called "mandarin ducks".

There is a kind of "duck" that is slightly larger than a domestic duck, but has golden feathers all over its body. In fact, this is not a domestic duck, but a Ruddy Shelduck, which is a kind of bird.Speaking of lovebirds, everyone will think of the poem "I wish to be lovebirds in the...

Coscoroba coscoroba,Coscoroba Swan

Features：It looks like a goose, with a red beak and feet.

扁嘴天鹅主要在水中生活，游泳时颈部弯曲，头部低垂，姿态极为优雅。飞行时颈部向前伸直，脚伸向后，两翅煽动缓慢而有力。主要采食各种水生植物、海草、藻类及少量水生昆虫、鱼卵和甲壳动物等，在一些地方则专门以某一种水草为主。在觅食的时候，大多选择开阔的浅水地区，不停地将头部和颈部探人水中，取食水面上层丰富的食...

Cygnus melanocoryphus

Features：One of the most emotionally devoted animals

The black-necked swan is a swan with a black neck and white body. It mainly feeds on various aquatic plants, seaweeds, algae and a small amount of aquatic insects, fish eggs and crustaceans. In some places, it mainly feeds on a certain kind of aquatic plants. Black-necked...