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Varanus salvator

Varanus salvator

Varanus salvator,Common Water Monitor,Five-clawed golden dragon, monitor lizard, four-legged snake, scale insect, big four-legged snake

Features:Aggressive and ferocious. Good at swimming and climbing trees.

Common Water Monitor, with 5 subspecies.Unlike other animals, Common Water Monitor is active both day and night, but it goes out most frequently in the early morning and evening, swimming in the water or climbing up trees to find food. The round-nosed monitor has a wide range of diets, from fish, fr...

Varanus bengalensis,

Varanus bengalensis,

Varanus bengalensis,Bengal Monitor Lizard,Common Indian monitor lizard, Bengal monitor lizard

Features:It has strong survival ability and mainly lives on the ground, but can also climb trees.

Bengal Monitor Lizard, also known as Bengal Monitor Lizard, has 3 subspecies.Bengal Monitor Lizard mainly lives on the ground and also climbs trees. Males are more active than females (males: 4.5 hours/day, females: 2.85 hours/day). The male has an activity range of 53,000m2 and the female has an ac...

Phrynocephalus mystaceus

Phrynocephalus mystaceus

Phrynocephalus mystaceus,Toad-headed Agama

Features:The largest species of lizard

The big-eared sand lizard is called Toad-headed Agama in English, and there are 2 subspecies.The big-eared sand lizard runs very fast, and when it encounters danger, it quickly burrows into the sand dunes and disappears. When being chased, it often keeps its body swaying close to the ground, digging...

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Yellow-breasted Bunting

Yellow-breasted Bunting,Yellow bile, Java sparrow, yellow belly sac, yellow bean, wheat sparrow, old ironback, golden bunting, white-shouldered bunting, yellow-breasted bunting

Features:The neck and chest are crossed by a chestnut brown band, the undertail coverts are almost pure white, and the rest of the lower body is bright yellow

Yellow-breasted Bunting is a small songbird with two subspecies.Yellow-breasted Buntings often move alone or in pairs during the breeding season, but prefer to gather in groups during the non-breeding season, especially during migration and winter, when they gather in large groups of hundreds to tho...

Emberiza jankowskii

Emberiza jankowskii

Emberiza jankowskii,Jankowski's Bunting,Rufous-backed Bunting,Red-bellied Sparrow

Features:The lower body is dirty white or grayish white, with a distinct heart-shaped chestnut spot in the center of the abdomen

The foreign name of the Chestnut-bellied Bunting is Jankowski's Bunting, a small songbird with no subspecies.Most chestnut-bellied buntings wander around in winter, reaching as far as Harbin in China in the north and occasionally as far as Shenyang and Beidaihe in the south. Only a few stay in t...

Luscinia ruficeps

Luscinia ruficeps

Rufous-headed Robin,Luscinia ruficeps

Features:The top of the head and nape are chestnut, the chin and throat are white with black edges

The Rufous-headed Robin is a very rare endangered species.The Rufous-headed Robin sings more in May. It is very good at singing. The song is loud and melodious, like other robins. The song is loud and powerful, with a heavy guttural sound, pleasant and intermittent, with a short interlude at the beg...

Liocichla omeiensis

Liocichla omeiensis

Liocichla omeiensis,Omei Shan Liocichla

Features:Timid and fearful, uses different habitats in different seasons

The foreign name of the Gray-breasted Bush Babbler is Omei Shan Liocichla, and there is no subspecies.Deignan (1964) believed that the gray-breasted bush thrush may be the same species as the yellow-spotted bush thrush (Liocichla steerii) distributed in Taiwan, China. Delacour (1933, 1946) believed...

Pterorhinus courtoisi

Pterorhinus courtoisi

Pterorhinus courtoisi,Blue-crowned laughingthrush,Chinese Yellow-throated Laughingthrush, Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, Wuyuan Yellow-throated Laughingthrush, Blue-throated Laughingthrush

Features:It is one of the few birds with brightly colored feathers among the thrushes.

Blue-crowned laughingthrush is a small-bodied bird of the family Timalis, with no subspecies.There are dozens of species of Laughingthrush distributed in southern China. Although there are also rare species such as Chestnut-necked Laughingthrush and Brown Laughingthrush, the Indigo-crowned Laughingt...

Garrulax sukatschewi

Garrulax sukatschewi

Garrulax sukatschewi,Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush

Features:The cheek and ear feathers are white with black eye and zygomatic stripes, which are very eye-catching on the light-colored head. The nose feathers are black and cover the forehead, hence the name.

Snowy-cheeked Laughingthrush, no subspecies.Black-cheeked Laughingthrush often moves in pairs, mostly foraging in the leaf litter and moss under the forest. Male and female birds stay together all year round, and almost always move in the moss and dry leaves under the forest, never leaving the fores...

Schoeniparus variegaticeps

Schoeniparus variegaticeps

Pseudominla variegaticeps,Gold-fronted Fulvetta,Schoeniparus variegaticeps

Features:A smaller, brightly colored sparrow

Gold-fronted Fulvetta is a species endemic to central and southern China.Gold-fronted Fulvetta was discovered and named by Mr. Ren Guorong in 1932. It is also the first wild bird named by a Chinese, and is a milestone in the history of bird research. The origin of the golden-fronted thrush is Dayao...

Sinosuthora przewalskii

Sinosuthora przewalskii

Sinosuthora przewalskii,Rusty-throated Parrotbill,Paradoxornis przewalskii

Features:The grey feathers on the top of the head and the rest of the body contrast sharply with the reddish-brown forehead, eyeliner and brows, hence the name.

Rusty-throated Parrotbill is a small bird of the family Oriole and the genus Parrotbill, with no subspecies. The Grey-crowned Parrotbill was named by Berezovsky and Bianco in 1891 based on the specimens collected by the Russian Central Asian Expedition in southern Gansu Pro...

Perisoreus internigrans

Perisoreus internigrans

Perisoreus internigrans,Black-hcoled Jay

Features:Similar in shape to a crow but smaller, endemic to China

Black-headed Jay, no subspecies.Black-headed Jay usually moves alone or in pairs. When they move in pairs, they fly in a line in the woods, one in front of the other, not far from each other, and occasionally chirp to respond to each other. The chirping sounds like "ga-a, ga-a", with the f...

Castor

Castor

Castor,Beaver, nutria

Rodents LC

Features:The body is obese, with no obvious difference between males and females. The head is short and blunt, the eyes are small, the neck is short, the limbs are short and wide, the forelimbs are short, and the tail is large and flat.

There are only two species of beavers in the world. The other is the American beaver, which is distributed in Canada and Alaska, USA. Beavers are highly adapted to aquatic life and can move underwater for a long time. They have the habit of building dams with branches and trunks and nesting next to...

Aceros undulatus

Aceros undulatus

Aceros undulatus,Rhyticeros undulatus,wreathed hornbill,Bar-pouched wreathed hornbill

Features:The call is monotonous, hoarse, and like a dog barking

The wreathed hornbill is called wreathed hornbill in foreign language, and has 2 subspecies.The wreathed hornbill often moves in small groups of 3 to 5. The call is monotonous, hoarse, and like a dog barking, and sometimes it can also make a low two-syllable sound. It appears to be rather clumsy whe...

Aceros nipalensis

Aceros nipalensis

Rufous-necked Hornbill,Aceros nipalensis,rufous-necked hornbill

Features:The mouth is huge and curved downwards, without a helmet

Rufous-necked hornbill is a large bird with no subspecies.Rufous-necked hornbill nests in tree holes. They often move in pairs or small groups of more than 10. They mainly feed on fleshy wild fruits such as banyan fruit.The brown-necked hornbill is a resident bird. Both males and females make a soft...

Buceros bicornis

Buceros bicornis

Rodentia, Sciuridae, Flying Squirrel,Buceros bicornis,Great Hornbill

Features:The beak and casque are both large, black at the base, orange-red at the tip of the beak and the top of the casque, orange-yellow at the sides of the beak, and milky white at the lower beak.

Great Hornbill has two subspecies.Great Hornbill often moves alone during the breeding season, and likes to move in groups on tall banyan trees during the non-breeding season. When the fruits are ripe, most hornbills feed in one place until all the food is eaten. They often fly in groups, one after...

Anthracoceros coronatus

Anthracoceros coronatus

Anthracoceros coronatus,Malabar pied hornbill,Crowned Hornbill, Airplane Bird

Features:The mouth has a large helmet process, which is waxy yellow or ivory white in color. There is a significant black spot in front of the helmet process.

The Malabar pied hornbill is called Malabar pied hornbill in English, and has 2 subspecies.The Malabar pied hornbill is a resident bird. It often moves in groups except during the breeding season. It often lives and moves in trees, and sometimes forages on the ground. The call is "Gak, Gak, Gak...

Strix davidi

Strix davidi

Strix davidi,Sichuan wood owl,Hum, cat-bird, owl

Features:Very similar to the exotic long-tailed forest owl

Sichuan wood owl, also known as Sichuan wood owl in English, is a large gray-brown owl with no subspecies.The Sichuan Forest Owl is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Long-tailed Forest Owl, but due to long-term geographical isolation from other Long-tailed Forest Owl subspecies, more and more...

Bubo blakistoni

Bubo blakistoni

Bubo blakistoni,Blakiston's Eagle-owl

Features:But the ear feathers are long and pointed, the facial disc is not obvious, and it can also make a scary posture called intimidation display.

Blakiston's Eagle-owl is a large owl with two subspecies.The Hairy-legged Eagle Owl (Bubo blakistoni) was classified as Ketupa before 2014, and was classified as Bubo in 2014.The Hairy-legged Eagle Owl is nocturnal. It hides in trees by the river or on cliffs along the river during the day. It c...

Haliaeetus pelagicus

Haliaeetus pelagicus

Haliaeetus pelagicus,Aquila pelagica,Stellers Sea Eagle,Steller's eagle, sea eagle, golden eagle

Features:The largest sculpture in the world

Stellers Sea Eagle, also known as Stellers Sea Eagle in English, is a large bird of prey with two subspecies.The Steller's Sea Eagle has only one named subspecies in China, which is extremely rare and has only been recorded in Luannan, Hebei, Yuci, Shanxi, Dalian and Yingkou, Liaoning, Hunchun,...

Haliaeetus leucoryphus

Haliaeetus leucoryphus

Haliaeetus leucoryphus,Pallas's Fish Eagle,Band-tailed Fish-eagle ,Pallas's Fish-eagle Pallas's Sea-eagle,Black Eagle, Jade

Features:Tail feathers are very precious feather ornaments

Pallas's Fish Eagle is a large bird of prey with no subspecies.Pallas's Fish Eagle lives in open areas with lakes, rivers and ponds, and can live in plains or plateau lake areas. It mainly feeds on fish and waterfowl. They often catch various waterfowl on the water surface, such as wild gees...