This is a list of the bird species recorded in China. The avifauna of
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
include a total of 1425 species, of which 57 are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
, and 3 have been
introduced by humans. Of these, 108 species are globally threatened.
This list's
taxonomic
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of ''
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World
''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World'' is a book by Jim Clements which presents a list of the bird species of the world.
The most recent printed version is the sixth edition (2007), but has been updated yearly, the last version in 2022 ...
'', 2022 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for China.
The following tags have been used to highlight several categories. The commonly occurring native species do not fall into any of these categories.
* (A)
Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in China
* (E)
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
- a species native or restricted to China
* (I)
Introduced - a species introduced to China as a consequence, direct or indirect, of human actions
* (Ex)
Extirpated
Local extinction, also known as extirpation, refers to a species (or other taxon) of plant or animal that ceases to exist in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinct ...
- a species no longer found in China but found elsewhere
Ducks, geese, and waterfowl
![Mandarin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Mandarin.duck.arp.jpg)
Order:
Anseriformes
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which in ...
Family:
Anatidae
The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica. These birds are adapted for swimming, floating ...
Anatidae includes the
duck
Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which are members of the same family. Divided among several subfamilies, they are a form t ...
s and most duck-like waterfowl, such as
geese
A goose (plural, : geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family (biology), family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera ''Anser (bird), Anser'' (the grey geese and white geese) and ''Branta'' (the black geese). Some o ...
and
swan
Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...
s. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
*
Lesser whistling-duck
The lesser whistling duck (''Dendrocygna javanica''), also known as Indian whistling duck or lesser whistling teal, is a species of whistling duck that breeds in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They are nocturnal feeders that during ...
, ''Dendrocygna javanica''
*
Bar-headed goose
The bar-headed goose (''Anser indicus'') is a goose that breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes and winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India. It lays three to eight eggs at a time in a ground nest. It ...
, ''Anser indicus''
*
Snow goose
The snow goose (''Anser caerulescens'') is a species of goose native to North America. Both white and dark morphs exist, the latter often known as blue goose. Its name derives from the typically white plumage. The species was previously placed ...
, ''Anser caerulescens'' (A)
*
Graylag goose
The greylag goose or graylag goose (''Anser anser'') is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus ''Anser''. It has mottled and barred grey and white plumage and an orange beak and pink legs. A ...
, ''Anser anser''
*
Swan goose
The swan goose (''Anser cygnoides'') is a large goose with a natural breeding range in inland Mongolia, northernmost China, and the Russian Far East. It is migratory and winters mainly in central and eastern China. Vagrant birds are encountered ...
, ''Anser cygnoides''
*
Greater white-fronted goose
The greater white-fronted goose (''Anser albifrons'') is a species of goose related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (''A. erythropus''). It is named for the patch of white feathers bordering the base of its bill, in fact ''albifrons ...
, ''Anser albifrons''
*
Lesser white-fronted goose
The lesser white-fronted goose (''Anser erythropus'') is a goose closely related to the larger white-fronted goose (''A. albifrons''). It breeds in the northernmost Palearctic, but it is a scarce breeder in Europe. There is a re-introduction sc ...
, ''Anser erythropus''
*
Taiga bean-goose
The taiga bean goose (''Anser fabalis'') is a goose that breeds in northern Europe and Asia. This and the tundra bean goose are recognised as separate species by the American Ornithological Society and the International Ornithologists' Union, bu ...
, ''Anser fabalis''
*
Tundra bean-goose
The tundra bean goose (''Anser serrirostris'') is a goose that breeds in northern Siberia. This and the taiga bean goose are recognised as separate species by the American Ornithological Society and International Ornithologists' Union, but are ...
, ''Anser serrirostris''
*
Brant, ''Branta bernicla''
*
Barnacle goose
The barnacle goose (''Branta leucopsis'') is a species of goose that belongs to the genus '' Branta'' of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey ''Anser'' species. Despite its superficial ...
, ''Branta leucopsis'' (A)
*
Cackling goose, ''Branta hutchinsii'' (A)
*
Canada goose
The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...
, ''Branta canadensis''(A)
*
Red-breasted goose
The red-breasted goose (''Branta ruficollis'') is a brightly marked species of goose in the genus ''Branta'' from Eurasia. It is currently classified as vulnerable by the IUCN.
Taxonomy and etymology
The red-breasted goose is sometimes placed ...
, ''Branta ruficollis'' (A)
*
Mute swan
The mute swan (''Cygnus olor'') is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America, home ...
, ''Cygnus olor''
*
Tundra swan
The tundra swan (''Cygnus columbianus'') is a small swan of the Holarctic. The two taxa within it are usually regarded as conspecific, but are also sometimes split into two species: Bewick's swan (''Cygnus bewickii'') of the Palaearctic and th ...
, ''Cygnus columbianus''
*
Whooper swan
The whooper swan ( /ˈhuːpə(ɹ) swɒn/) (''Cygnus cygnus''), also known as the common swan, pronounced ''hooper swan'', is a large northern hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan, and the type specie ...
, ''Cygnus cygnus''
*
Knob-billed duck
The knob-billed duck (''Sarkidiornis melanotos''), or African comb duck, is a duck found in tropical wetlands in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and the Indian Subcontinent from northern India to Laos and extreme southern China.
Most taxonomic au ...
, ''Sarkidiornis melanotos''
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Ruddy shelduck
The ruddy shelduck (''Tadorna ferruginea''), known in India as the Brahminy duck, is a member of the family Anatidae. It is a distinctive waterfowl, in length with a wingspan of . It has orange-brown body plumage with a paler head, while the ...
, ''Tadorna ferruginea''
*
Common shelduck
The common shelduck (''Tadorna tadorna'') is a waterfowl species of the shelduck genus, ''Tadorna''. It is widespread and common in the Euro-Siberian region of the Palearctic, mainly breeding in temperate and wintering in subtropical regions; i ...
, ''Tadorna tadorna''
*
Cotton pygmy-goose
The cotton pygmy goose or cotton teal (''Nettapus coromandelianus'') is a small perching duck which breeds in Asia, Southeast Asia extending south and east to Queensland where they are sometimes called white-quilled pygmy goose. They are among t ...
, ''Nettapus coromandelianus''
*
Mandarin duck
The mandarin duck (''Aix galericulata'') is a perching duck species native to the East Palearctic. It is medium-sized, at long with a wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus ''Aix''. ...
, ''Aix galericulata''
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Baikal teal
The Baikal teal (''Sibirionetta formosa''), also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in East Asia.
Taxonomy
The first formal description of the Baikal teal was by the German ...
, ''Sibirionetta formosa''
*
Garganey
The garganey (''Spatula querquedula'') is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and across the Palearctic, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to southern Africa, India (in particular Santragachi), Banglades ...
, ''Spatula querquedula''
*
Northern shoveler
The northern shoveler (; ''Spatula clypeata''), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, wintering in southern Euro ...
, ''Spatula clypeata''
*
Gadwall
The gadwall (''Mareca strepera'') is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.
Taxonomy
The gadwall was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. DNA studies have shown that ...
, ''Mareca strepera''
*
Falcated duck
The falcated duck or falcated teal (''Mareca falcata'') is a gadwall-sized dabbling duck from the east Palearctic (East Siberia and Mongolia to North Japan; wintering to India).
Taxonomy
The closest relative of this species is the gadwall, follo ...
, ''Mareca falcata''
*
Eurasian wigeon
The Eurasian wigeon or European wigeon (''Mareca penelope''), also known as the widgeon or the wigeon, is one of three species of wigeon in the dabbling duck genus ''Mareca''. It is common and widespread within its Palearctic range.
Taxonomy
Th ...
, ''Mareca penelope''
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American wigeon
The American wigeon (''Mareca americana''), also known as the baldpate, is a species of dabbling duck found in North America. Formerly assigned to ''Anas'', this species is classified with the other wigeons in the dabbling duck genus ''Mareca''. ...
, ''Mareca americana'' (A)
*
Indian spot-billed duck
The Indian spot-billed duck (''Anas poecilorhyncha'') is a large dabbling duck that is a non-migratory breeding duck throughout freshwater wetlands in the Indian subcontinent. The name is derived from the red spot at the base of the bill that is ...
, ''Anas poecilorhyncha''
*
Eastern spot-billed duck
The eastern spot-billed duck or Chinese spot-billed duck (''Anas zonorhyncha'') is a species of dabbling duck that breeds in East and Southeast Asia. This species was formerly considered a subspecies of the Indian spot-billed duck and both were ...
, ''Anas zonorhyncha''
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Mallard
The mallard () or wild duck (''Anas platyrhynchos'') is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Arge ...
, ''Anas platyrhynchos''
*
Northern pintail
The pintail or northern pintail (''Anas acuta'') is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding ...
, ''Anas acuta''
*
Green-winged teal
The green-winged teal (''Anas carolinensis'') is a common and widespread duck that breeds in the northern areas of North America except on the Aleutian Islands. It was considered Conspecificity, conspecific with the Eurasian teal (''A. crecca'') ...
, ''Anas crecca''
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Marbled teal
The marbled duck, or marbled teal (''Marmaronetta angustirostris'') is a medium-sized species of duck from southern Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia. The scientific name, ''Marmaronetta angustirostris'', comes from the Greek ...
, ''Marmaronetta angustirostris'' (A)
*
Red-crested pochard
The red-crested pochard (''Netta rufina'') is a large diving duck. The scientific name is derived from Greek language, Greek ''Netta'' "duck", and Latin ''rufina'', "golden-red" (from ''rufus'', "ruddy"). Its breeding habitat is lowland marshes a ...
, ''Netta rufina''
*
Canvasback
The canvasback (''Aythya valisineria'') is a species of diving duck, the largest found in North America.
Taxonomy
Scottish-American naturalist Alexander Wilson described the canvasback in 1814. The genus name is derived from Greek ''aithuia'', ...
, ''Aythya valisineria'' (A)
*
Common pochard
The common pochard (; ''Aythya ferina'') is a medium-sized diving duck. The scientific name is derived from Greek '' aithuia'', an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin ''ferina'', "wild game", f ...
, ''Aythya ferina''
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Ferruginous duck
The ferruginous duck (''Aythya nyroca''), also known as ferruginous pochard, common white-eye or white-eyed pochard, is a medium-sized diving duck from Eurosiberia. The scientific name is derived from Greek '' aithuia'' an unidentified seabir ...
, ''Aythya nyroca''
*
Baer's pochard
Baer's pochard (''Aythya baeri'') is a diving duck found in eastern Asia. It is a resident bird in North and Central China, formerly bred in southeast Russia and Northeast China, migrating in winter to southern China, Vietnam, Japan, and Indi ...
, ''Aythya baeri''
*
Tufted duck
The tufted duck or tufted pochard (''Aythya fuligula'') is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds, found in northern Eurasia. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek '' aithuia'', an unidentified seabird ment ...
, ''Aythya fuligula''
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Greater scaup
The greater scaup (''Aythya marila''), just scaup in Europe or, colloquially, "bluebill" in North America, is a mid-sized diving duck, larger than the closely related lesser scaup. It spends the summer months breeding in Alaska, northern Canada, ...
, ''Aythya marila''
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Steller's eider
Steller's eider (''Polysticta stelleri'') is a migrating Arctic diving duck that breeds along the coastlines of eastern Russia and Alaska. It is the rarest, smallest, and fastest flying of the eider species. Amongst the Inupiat, Steller's eider is ...
, ''Polysticta stelleri'' (A)
*
Harlequin duck
The harlequin duck (''Histrionicus histrionicus'') is a small sea duck. It takes its name from Harlequin (French ''Arlequin'', Italian ''Arlecchino''), a colourfully dressed character in Commedia dell'arte. The species name comes from the Latin ...
, ''Histrionicus histrionicus''
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Velvet scoter
The velvet scoter (''Melanitta fusca''), also called a velvet duck,Buczacki, Stefan (2005) ''Fauna Britannica'', Hamlyn, London. is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and the Palearctic west of the Yenisey basin. The gen ...
, ''Melanitta fusca'' (A)
*
Stejneger's scoter
Stejneger's scoter (''Melanitta stejnegeri''), also known as the Siberian scoter, is a large sea duck. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ''melas'' "black" and ''netta'' "duck".
Taxonomy
Stejneger's scoter was described by the America ...
, ''Melanitta stejnegeri''
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Black scoter
The black scoter or American scoter (''Melanitta americana'') is a large sea duck, in length. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ''melas'' "black" and ''netta'' "duck". The species name is from the Latin for "American ".
Together wit ...
, ''Melanitta americana'' (A)
*
Long-tailed duck
The long-tailed duck (''Clangula hyemalis''), formerly known as oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is th ...
, ''Clangula hyemalis''
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Common goldeneye
The common goldeneye or simply goldeneye (''Bucephala clangula'') is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus ''Bucephala'', the goldeneyes. Its closest relative is the similar Barrow's goldeneye. The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek ' ...
, ''Bucephala clangula''
*
Smew
The smew (''Mergellus albellus'') is a species of duck, and is the only living member of the genus ''Mergellus''. ''Mergellus'' is a diminutive of '' Mergus'' and ''albellus'' is from Latin ''albus'' "white". This genus is closely related to ' ...
, ''Mergellus albellus''
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Common merganser
The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (''Mergus merganser'') is a large seaduck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America. The common merganser eats mainly fish. It nests in holes in trees.
...
, ''Mergus merganser''
*
Red-breasted merganser
The red-breasted merganser (''Mergus serrator'') is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and ''serrator'' is a sawyer from Latin ''serra'', ...
, ''Mergus serrator''
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Scaly-sided merganser
The scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser (''Mergus squamatus'') is an endangered typical merganser (genus ''Mergus''). It lives in Manchuria and extreme Southeast Siberia, breeding in the north and wintering in the south.
Description
Thi ...
, ''Mergus squamatus''
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White-headed duck
The white-headed duck (''Oxyura leucocephala'') is a small diving duck some long. The male has a white head with black crown, a blue bill, and reddish-grey plumage. The female has a dark bill and rather duller colouring. Its breeding habitat is ...
, ''Oxyura leucocephala''
Pheasants, grouse, and allies
![Bjchwzh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Bjchwzh.jpg)
Order:
Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl. Gallinaceous birds, as they are called, are important in their ecosystems as seed dispersers and predators, and are often ...
Family:
Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family (biology), family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Turkey bird, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl. The family includes many of the most popular Game (hunti ...
The Phasianidae are a family of terrestrial birds which consists of
quail
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes. The collective noun for a group of quail is a flock, covey, or bevy.
Old World quail are placed in the family Phasianidae, and New Wor ...
s,
partridge
A partridge is a medium-sized Galliformes, galliform bird in any of several genera, with a wide Indigenous (ecology), native distribution throughout parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. Several species have been introduced to the Americas. They a ...
s,
snowcock
The snowcocks or snowfowl are a group of bird species in the genus ''Tetraogallus'' of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are ground-nesting birds that breed in the mountain ranges of southern Eurasia from the Caucasus to the Himalayas and we ...
s,
francolin
Francolins are birds in the tribe Gallini that traditionally have been placed in the genus ''Francolinus'', but now commonly are divided into multiple genera.
As previously defined, they were paraphyletic as the genus '' Pternistis'', which wa ...
s,
spurfowl Spurfowl are two genera of birds:
* ''Galloperdix'', from India and Sri Lanka
* ''Pternistis
''Pternistis'' is a genus of galliform birds formerly classified in the spurfowl group of the Perdicinae, partridge subfamily of the Phasianidae, phea ...
s,
tragopan
''Tragopan'' is a bird genus in the pheasant family Phasianidae. Member of the genus are commonly called "horned pheasants" because males have two brightly colored, fleshy horns on their head that can be erected during courtship displays. The ha ...
s,
monal
A monal is a bird of genus ''Lophophorus'' of the pheasant family, Phasianidae. Description
The males all have colorful, iridescent plumage. Their physique is rather plump. Their diet consists of plants such as roots and bulbs and insects. D ...
s,
pheasant
Pheasants ( ) are birds of several genera within the family (biology), family Phasianidae in the order (biology), order Galliformes. Although they can be found all over the world in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera na ...
s,
peafowl
Peafowl is a common name for three bird species in the genera '' Pavo'' and ''Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae, the pheasants and their allies. Male peafowl are referred to as peacocks, and female peafowl are refe ...
s,
grouse
Grouse are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae. Grouse are presently assigned to the tribe Tetraonini (formerly the subfamily Tetraoninae and the family Tetraonidae), a classification supported by mitochondr ...
,
ptarmigan
''Lagopus'' is a small genus of birds in the grouse subfamily commonly known as ptarmigans (). The genus contains three living species with numerous described subspecies, all living in tundra or cold upland areas.
Taxonomy and etymology
The ge ...
, and
jungle fowl
Junglefowl are the only four living species of bird from the genus ''Gallus'' in the bird order Galliformes, and occur in parts of South and Southeast Asia. They diverged from their common ancestor about 4–6 million years ago.
Although origin ...
s. In general, they are plump (although they vary in size) and have broad, relatively short wings.
*
Hill partridge
The common hill partridge, necklaced hill partridge, or simply hill partridge (''Arborophila torqueola'') is a species of bird in the pheasant family found in Asia.
Description
Males of the species have ornate patterns and markings, a combina ...
, ''Arborophila torqueola''
*
Sichuan partridge
The Sichuan partridge (''Arborophila rufipectus'') is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in China where it is classified as a nationally protected animal. Its natural habitat is temperate forest. It is threatened by habit ...
, ''Arborophila rufipectus'' (E)
*
Chestnut-breasted partridge
The chestnut-breasted partridge (''Arborophila mandellii'') is a partridge species endemic to the eastern Himalayas north of the Brahmaputra, and occurs in Bhutan, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and south-eastern Tibet at elevations from . ...
, ''Arborophila mandellii''
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White-necklaced partridge
The white-necklaced partridge (''Arborophila gingica''), also known as the collared partridge or Rickett's hill-partridge, is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is endemic to southeastern China. It is threatened by habitat loss and ...
, ''Arborophila gingica'' (E)
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Rufous-throated partridge
The rufous-throated partridge (''Arborophila rufogularis'') is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is found in montane forests in India and Southeast Asia. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a ...
, ''Arborophila rufogularis''
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Hainan partridge
The Hainan partridge (''Arborophila ardens'') is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is endemic to Hainan Island, China. Its natural habitats are primary evergreen forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and has been assessed as a v ...
, ''Arborophila ardens'' (E)
*
White-cheeked partridge, ''Arborophila atrogularis''
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Bar-backed partridge, ''Arborophila brunneopectus''
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Snow partridge
The snow partridge (''Lerwa lerwa'') is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae found widely distributed across the high-altitude Himalayan regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal and China. It is the only species within its genus, and is thoug ...
, ''Lerwa lerwa''
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Blood pheasant
The blood pheasant (''Ithaginis cruentus''), also known as blood partridge, is the only species in genus ''Ithaginis'' of the pheasant family. It is a relatively small, short-tailed pheasant that is widespread and is fairly common in eastern Him ...
, ''Ithaginis cruentus''
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Western tragopan
The western tragopan or western horned tragopan (''Tragopan melanocephalus'') is a medium-sized brightly plumed pheasant found along the Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Ut ...
, ''Tragopan melanocephalus''
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Satyr tragopan
The satyr tragopan (''Tragopan satyra'') also known as the crimson horned pheasant, is a pheasant found in the Himalayan reaches of India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. They reside in moist oak and rhododendron forests with dense undergrowth and bambo ...
, ''Tragopan satyra''
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Blyth's tragopan
Blyth's tragopan (''Tragopan blythii'') or the grey-bellied tragopan, is a pheasant that is a vulnerable species. The common name commemorates Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist and Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Benga ...
, ''Tragopan blythii''
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Temminck's tragopan
The Temminck's tragopan (''Tragopan temminckii'') is a medium-sized, approximately 64 cm long, pheasant in the genus ''Tragopan''. The male is a stocky red-and-orange bird with white-spotted plumage, black bill and pink legs. The male's disp ...
, ''Tragopan temminckii''
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Cabot's tragopan
Cabot's tragopan (''Tragopan caboti'') is a pheasant found in south-east China. The common and scientific names of this large bird both commemorate the ornithologist Samuel Cabot III. Other common names include the Chinese tragopan and the yello ...
, ''Tragopan caboti'' (E)
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Verreaux's partridge
Verreaux's monal-partridge (''Tetraophasis obscurus'') or the chestnut-throated partridge, is a bird species in the family Phasianidae. It is found only in central China. Its natural habitat is boreal forest.
The common name commemorate the Fren ...
, ''Tetraophasis obscurus'' (E)
*
Szecheny's partridge, ''Tetraophasis szechenyii''
*
Himalayan monal
The Himalayan monal (''Lophophorus impejanus''), also called Impeyan monal and Impeyan pheasant, is a pheasant native to Himalayan forests and shrublands at elevations of . It is part of the family Phasianidae and is listed as Least Concern on th ...
, ''Lophophorus impejanus''
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Sclater's monal
Sclater's monal (''Lophophorus sclateri'') also known as the crestless monal is a Himalayan pheasant. The name commemorates the British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater.
Taxonomy
There are two recognized subspecies:
* ''L. s. arunachalensis'' (Ku ...
, ''Lophophorus sclateri''
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Chinese monal, ''Lophophorus lhuysii'' (E)
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Koklass pheasant
The koklass pheasant (''Pucrasia macrolopha'') is a species of gamebird, being closely related to progenitive grouse that lived during the Miocene. They are distantly related to pheasants and are most closely related to grouse and turkeys. Ko ...
, ''Pucrasia macrolopha''
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Hazel grouse
The hazel grouse (''Tetrastes bonasia''), sometimes called the hazel hen, is one of the smaller members of the grouse family of birds. It is a sedentary species, breeding across the Palearctic as far east as Hokkaido, and as far west as eastern a ...
, ''Tetrastes bonasia''
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Severtzov's grouse
The Chinese grouse (''Tetrastes sewerzowi''), also known as Severtzov's grouse or the black-breasted hazel grouse, is a grouse species closely related to the hazel grouse.
It is a sedentary bird which inhabits conifer-rich mixed montane forests ...
, ''Tetrastes sewerzowi'' (E)
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Willow ptarmigan
The willow ptarmigan () (''Lagopus lagopus'') is a bird in the grouse subfamily Tetraoninae of the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is also known as the willow grouse and in Ireland and Britain, where the subspecies '' L. l. scotica'' was prev ...
, ''Lagopus lagopus''
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Rock ptarmigan
The rock ptarmigan (''Lagopus muta'') is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family. It is known simply as the ptarmigan in the UK. It is the official bird for the Canadian territory of Nunavut, where it is known as the ''aqiggiq'' (ᐊᕿ ...
, ''Lagopus muta''
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Siberian grouse
The Siberian grouse (''Falcipennis falcipennis''), also known as Siberian spruce grouse, Amur grouse, or Asian spruce grouse, is a short, rotund forest-dwelling grouse. A sedentary, non-migratory bird, it is the only member of the genus ''Falcipe ...
, ''Falcipennis falcipennis''
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Black-billed capercaillie
The black-billed capercaillie (''Tetrao urogalloides''), also known as eastern capercaillie, Siberian capercaillie, spotted capercaillie or (in Russian) stone capercaillie, is a large grouse species closely related to the more widespread western ...
, ''Tetrao urogalloides''
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Western capercaillie
The western capercaillie (''Tetrao urogallus''), also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie , is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species. ...
, ''Tetrao urogallus''
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Black grouse
The black grouse (''Lyrurus tetrix''), also known as northern black grouse, Eurasian black grouse, blackgame or blackcock, is a large game bird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, spanning across the Palearctic in moorland and step ...
, ''Lyrurus tetrix''
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Tibetan partridge
The Tibetan partridge (''Perdix hodgsoniae'') is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes. They are found widely across the Tibetan Plateau and have some variations in plumage across populations. They forage on the ...
, ''Perdix hodgsoniae''
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Gray partridge
The grey partridge (''Perdix perdix''), also known as the gray-legged partridge, English partridge, Hungarian partridge, or hun, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name i ...
, ''Perdix perdix''
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Daurian partridge
The Daurian partridge (''Perdix dauurica''), also known as steppe partridge, Asian grey partridge or bearded partridge, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds). Its name derives from the ...
, ''Perdix dauurica''
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Reeves's pheasant
Reeves's pheasant (''Syrmaticus reevesii'') is a large pheasant within the genus ''Syrmaticus''. It is endemic to China. It is named after the British naturalist John Reeves, who first introduced live specimens to Europe in 1831.
Description
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, ''Syrmaticus reevesii'' (E)
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Elliot's pheasant
Elliot's pheasant (''Syrmaticus ellioti''), is a large pheasant native to south-eastern China.
Description
Males are up to long; they are brown and white with a black throat, chestnut-brown upper parts, white belly, nape and wing bars, red ba ...
, ''Syrmaticus ellioti'' (E)
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Hume's pheasant, ''Syrmaticus humiae''
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Golden pheasant
The golden pheasant (''Chrysolophus pictus''), also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae (pheasants). The genus name is from Ancient Greek ' ...
, ''Chrysolophus pictus'' (E)
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Lady Amherst's pheasant
Lady Amherst's pheasant (''Chrysolophus amherstiae'') is a bird of the order Galliformes and the family Phasianidae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''khrusolophos'', "with golden crest". The English name and ''amherstiae'' commemorates Sara ...
, ''Chrysolophus amherstiae''
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Ring-necked pheasant
The common pheasant (''Phasianus colchicus'') is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). The genus name comes from Latin ''phasianus'', "pheasant". The species name ''colchicus'' is Latin for "of Colchis" (modern day Georgia), a country on ...
, ''Phasianus colchicus''
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Tibetan eared-pheasant, ''Crossoptilon harmani''
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White eared-pheasant, ''Crossoptilon crossoptilon'' (E)
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Brown eared-pheasant, ''Crossoptilon mantchuricum'' (E)
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Blue eared-pheasant, ''Crossoptilon auritum'' (E)
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Kalij pheasant
The kalij pheasant (''Lophura leucomelanos'') is a pheasant found in forests and thickets, especially in the Himalayan foothills, from Pakistan to western Thailand. Males are rather variable depending on the subspecies involved, but all have at ...
, ''Lophura leucomelanos''
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Silver pheasant
The silver pheasant (''Lophura nycthemera'') is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China, with an introduced population on Victoria Island in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Neu ...
, ''Lophura nycthemera''
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Green peafowl, ''Pavo muticus''
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Scaly-breasted partridge, ''Tropicoperdix chloropus''
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Hainan peacock-pheasant, ''Polyplectron katsumatae'' (E)
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Gray peacock-pheasant, ''Polyplectron bicalcaratum''
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Mountain bamboo-partridge
The mountain bamboo partridge (''Bambusicola fytchii'') is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Tibet, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The binomial commemorates Major-General Albert Fytche.
The ...
, ''Bambusicola fytchii''
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Chinese bamboo-partridge, ''Bambusicola thoracica''
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Red junglefowl
The red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus'') is a tropical bird in the family Phasianidae. It ranges across much of Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. It was formerly known as the Bankiva or Bankiva Fowl. It is the species that gave rise to the ...
, ''Gallus gallus''
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Chinese francolin, ''Francolinus pintadeanus''
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Tibetan snowcock
The Tibetan snowcock (''Tetraogallus tibetanus'') is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. This species is found in high-altitude regions of the Western Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, where i ...
, ''Tetraogallus tibetanus''
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Altai snowcock, ''Tetraogallus altaicus''
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Himalayan snowcock
The Himalayan snowcock (''Tetraogallus himalayensis'') is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae found across the Himalayan ranges and parts of the adjoining Pamir range of Asia. It is found on alpine pastures and on steep rocky cliffs wh ...
, ''Tetraogallus himalayensis''
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Blue-breasted quail
The king quail (''Synoicus chinensis''), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old World quail in the family Phasianidae. This species is the smallest "true quail", rang ...
, ''Synoicus chinensis''
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Common quail, ''Coturnix coturnix''
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Japanese quail
The Japanese quail (''Coturnix japonica''), also known as the coturnix quail, is a species of Old World quail found in East Asia. First considered a subspecies of the common quail, it is now considered as a separate species. The Japanese quail ...
, ''Coturnix japonica''
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Chukar, ''Alectoris chukar''
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Przevalski's partridge, ''Alectoris magna'' (E)
Flamingos
Order:
Phoenicopteriformes
Phoenicopteriformes is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives. Flamingos (Phoenicopteriformes) and the closely related grebes ( Podicipedidae) are contained in the parent clade Mirandornithes.
Fossil rec ...
Family:
Phoenicopteridae
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbean ...
Flamingo
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of Wader, wading bird in the Family (biology), family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas ...
s are gregarious wading birds, usually tall, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Flamingos filter-feed on shellfish and algae. Their oddly shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they consume and, uniquely, are used upside-down.
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Greater flamingo
The greater flamingo (''Phoenicopterus roseus'') is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. It is found in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and in southern Europe.
Taxonomy
The greater flamingo was desc ...
, ''Phoenicopterus roseus'' (A)
Grebes
Order:
PodicipediformesFamily:
Podicipedidae
Grebe
Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes . Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter. Some flightless species exist as well, most notably ...
s are small to medium-large freshwater diving birds. They have lobed toes and are excellent swimmers and divers. However, they have their feet placed far back on the body, making them quite ungainly on land.
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Little grebe
The little grebe (''Tachybaptus ruficollis''), also known as dabchick, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''takhus'' "fast" and ''bapto'' "to sink under". The specific ''ruficollis'' is from Latin ...
, ''Tachybaptus ruficollis''
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Horned grebe
The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (''Podiceps auritus'') is a relatively small waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are two known subspecies: ''P. a. auritus'', which breeds in the Palearctic, and ''P. a. cornutus'', which breeds in ...
, ''Podiceps auritus''
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Red-necked grebe
The red-necked grebe (''Podiceps grisegena'') is a migratory aquatic bird found in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Its wintering habitat is largely restricted to calm waters just beyond the waves around ocean coasts, although ...
, ''Podiceps grisegena''
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Great crested grebe
The great crested grebe (''Podiceps cristatus'') is a member of the grebe family of water birds noted for its elaborate mating display.
Taxonomy
The great crested grebe was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in t ...
, ''Podiceps cristatus''
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Eared grebe
The black-necked grebe or eared grebe (''Podiceps nigricollis'') is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It was described in 1831 by Christian Ludwig Brehm. There are currently three accepted subspecies, including the nominate subspeci ...
, ''Podiceps nigricollis''
Pigeons and doves
Order:
Columbiformes
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
Family:
Columbidae
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
Pigeon
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
s and
dove
Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...
s are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy
cere
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for eating, preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food ...
.
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Rock pigeon
The rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon ( also ; ''Columba livia'') is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the "pigeon".
The domestic pigeon (''Columba livia domes ...
, ''Columba livia''
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Hill pigeon
The hill pigeon, eastern rock dove, or Turkestan hill dove (''Columba rupestris'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.
Description
The hill pigeon is a stout-bodied pigeon, similar in size and general appearance to the rock dove but ...
, ''Columba rupestris''
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Snow pigeon
The snow pigeon (''Columba leuconota'') is a species of bird in the genus ''Columba'' in the family Columbidae from hilly regions of central Asia. They are grey, black, pale brown and white birds and two subspecies are recognised: ''C. l. leucono ...
, ''Columba leuconota''
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Stock dove, ''Columba oenas''
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Yellow-eyed pigeon
The yellow-eyed pigeon or pale-backed pigeon (''Columba eversmanni'') is a member of the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons). It breeds in southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, north-east Iran and ...
, ''Columba eversmanni''
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Common wood-pigeon
The common wood pigeon or common woodpigeon (''Columba palumbus''), also known as simply wood pigeon, wood-pigeon or woodpigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family (Columbidae), native to the western Palearctic. It belongs to the ...
, ''Columba palumbus''
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Speckled wood-pigeon, ''Columba hodgsonii''
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Ashy wood-pigeon, ''Columba pulchricollis''
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Pale-capped pigeon
The pale-capped pigeon (''Columba punicea''), also known as the purple wood pigeon, is a species of large pigeon that is found patchily distributed in parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has a slow flight and spends a lot of t ...
, ''Columba punicea'' (Ex?)
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Japanese wood-pigeon, ''Columba janthina''
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European turtle-dove
The European turtle dove (''Streptopelia turtur'') is a member of the bird family Columbidae, the doves and pigeons. It breeds over a wide area of the south western Palearctic including north Africa but migrates to northern sub-Saharan Africa t ...
, ''Streptopelia turtur''
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Oriental turtle-dove, ''Streptopelia orientalis''
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Eurasian collared-dove
The Eurasian collared dove (''Streptopelia decaocto'') is a dove species native to Europe and Asia; it was introduced to Japan, North America and islands in the Caribbean. Because of its vast global range and increasing population trend, it ha ...
, ''Streptopelia decaocto''
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Burmese collared-dove, ''Streptopelia xanthocycla''
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Red collared-dove, ''Streptopelia tranquebarica''
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Spotted dove
The spotted dove (''Spilopelia chinensis'') is a small and somewhat long-tailed pigeon that is a common resident breeding bird across its native range on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia. The species has been introduced to many parts ...
, ''Streptopelia chinensis''
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Laughing dove
The laughing dove (''Spilopelia senegalensis'') is a small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Western Australia where it has established itself in the wild after being released from Perth Zoo in 1898. T ...
, ''Streptopelia senegalensis''
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Barred cuckoo-dove
The barred cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia unchall'') is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is native to South and Southeast Asia, and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Taxonomy
German herpetologist Johann Georg Wagler first d ...
, ''Macropygia unchall''
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Little cuckoo-dove
The little cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia ruficeps'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is a reddish brown pigeon, and is found in Brunei, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is rated as a species of&n ...
, ''Macropygia ruficeps''
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Asian emerald dove
The common emerald dove (''Chalcophaps indica''), also called Asian emerald dove and grey-capped emerald dove, is a widespread resident breeding pigeon native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. ...
, ''Chalcophaps indica''
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Orange-breasted green-pigeon, ''Treron bicincta''
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Ashy-headed green-pigeon, ''Treron phayrei''
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Thick-billed green-pigeon, ''Treron curvirostra''
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Yellow-footed green-pigeon, ''Treron phoenicoptera''
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Yellow-vented green-pigeon, ''Treron seimundi'' (A)
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Pin-tailed green-pigeon, ''Treron apicauda''
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Wedge-tailed green-pigeon, ''Treron sphenura''
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White-bellied green-pigeon, ''Treron sieboldii''
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Whistling green-pigeon, ''Treron formosae''
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Black-chinned fruit-dove, ''Ptilinopus leclancheri''
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Green imperial-pigeon, ''Ducula aenea''
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Mountain imperial-pigeon, ''Ducula badia''
Sandgrouse
Order:
Pterocliformes
Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes . They are traditionally placed in two genera. The two central Asian species are classified as '' Syrrhaptes'' and the othe ...
Family:
Pteroclidae
Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes . They are traditionally placed in two genera. The two central Asian species are classified as '' Syrrhaptes'' and the othe ...
Sandgrouse have small, pigeon like heads and necks, but sturdy compact bodies. They have long pointed wings and sometimes tails and a fast direct flight. Flocks fly to watering holes at dawn and dusk. Their legs are feathered down to the toes.
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Tibetan sandgrouse
The Tibetan sandgrouse (''Syrrhaptes tibetanus'') is a large bird in the sandgrouse family. The genus name ''Syrrhaptes'' is from Ancient Greek ''surrhaptos'', "sewn together" (the feathered toes of this sandgrouse are fused together) and ''tib ...
, ''Syrrhaptes tibetanus''
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Pallas's sandgrouse
Pallas's sandgrouse (''Syrrhaptes paradoxus'') is a medium to large bird in the sandgrouse family.
Naming
Marco Polo mentions a bird called ''Bargherlac'' (from Turkmen ''bağırlak'') in ''The Travels of Marco Polo'', published around 1300. ...
, ''Syrrhaptes paradoxus''
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Black-bellied sandgrouse, ''Pterocles orientalis''
Bustards
Order:
OtidiformesFamily:
Otididae
Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and on the steppes of the Old World. They range in length from . They make up the family Otididae (, formerly known as Otidae). Bustard ...
Bustards are large terrestrial birds mainly associated with dry open country and steppes in the Old World. They are omnivorous and nest on the ground. They walk steadily on strong legs and big toes, pecking for food as they go. They have long broad wings with "fingered" wingtips and striking patterns in flight. Many have interesting mating displays.
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Great bustard
The great bustard (''Otis tarda'') is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus ''Otis''. It breeds in open grasslands and farmland from northern Morocco, South and Central Europe, to temperate Central and East Asia. European po ...
, ''Otis tarda''
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Macqueen's bustard
MacQueen's bustard (''Chlamydotis macqueenii'') is a large bird in the bustard family. It is native to the desert and steppe regions of Asia, west from the Sinai Peninsula extending across Kazakhstan east to Mongolia. In the 19th century, vagrant ...
, ''Chlamydotis macqueenii''
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Little bustard
The little bustard (''Tetrax tetrax'') is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus ''Tetrax''. The genus name is from Ancient Greek and refers to a gamebird mentioned by Aristophanes and others. Distribution
It breeds in South ...
, ''Tetrax tetrax''
Cuckoos
![Oriental_Cuckoo_front_Maiala](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Oriental_Cuckoo_front_Maiala.JPG)
Order:
Cuculiformes
Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separa ...
Family:
Cuculidae
Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separa ...
The family Cuculidae includes
cuckoo
Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separ ...
s,
roadrunner
The roadrunners (genus ''Geococcyx''), also known as chaparral birds or chaparral cocks, are two species of fast-running ground cuckoos with long tails and crests. They are found in the southwestern and south-central United States and Mexico, us ...
s and
anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails and strong legs.
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Greater coucal
The greater coucal or crow pheasant (''Centropus sinensis''), is a large non-parasitic member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. A widespread resident in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, it is divided into several subspeci ...
, ''Centropus sinensis''
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Lesser coucal
The lesser coucal (''Centropus bengalensis'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It has a wide distribution range that overlaps with several other similar species. The habitat in which it is found is often marshy land with grass and ...
, ''Centropus bengalensis''
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Green-billed malkoha
The green-billed malkoha (''Phaenicophaeus tristis'') is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. T ...
, ''Phaenicophaeus tristis''
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Chestnut-winged cuckoo
The chestnut-winged cuckoo or red-winged crested cuckoo (''Clamator coromandus'') is a cuckoo found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. It has dark glossy upperparts, a black head with long crest chestnut wings, a long graduated glossy bla ...
, ''Clamator coromandus''
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Pied cuckoo
The Jacobin cuckoo (''Clamator jacobinus''), also pied cuckoo or pied crested cuckoo, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the mons ...
, ''Clamator jacobinus''
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Asian koel
The Asian koel (''Eudynamys scolopaceus'') is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with the closely related black-billed koels, and ...
, ''Eudynamys scolopacea''
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Asian emerald cuckoo
The Asian emerald cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx maculatus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its n ...
, ''Chrysococcyx maculatus''
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Violet cuckoo
The violet cuckoo (''Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
Description
The males have glossy violet feathers on the head and upper parts of the body. The blackish tail has a white tip, and barred outer fe ...
, ''Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus''
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Banded bay cuckoo
The banded bay cuckoo or bay-banded cuckoo (''Cacomantis sonneratii'') is a species of small cuckoo found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Like others in the genus they have a round nostril. They are usually founded in well wooded a ...
, ''Cacomantis sonneratii''
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Plaintive cuckoo
The plaintive cuckoo (''Cacomantis merulinus'') is a species of bird belonging to the genus ''Cacomantis'' in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It is native to Asia, from India, Nepal and China to Indonesia.
Description
The plaintive cuckoo is fai ...
, ''Cacomantis merulinus''
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Fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo
The fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo (''Surniculus dicruroides'') is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found resident mainly in peninsular India in hill forests although some specimens are known from the Himalayan foothills. It ca ...
, ''Surniculus dicruroides''
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Square-tailed drongo-cuckoo
The square-tailed drongo-cuckoo (''Surniculus lugubris'') is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. In the past the species ''S. lugubris'' included the subspecies ''dicruroides'' which is now treated as a separate species the fork-t ...
, ''Surniculus lugubris''
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Large hawk-cuckoo
The large hawk-cuckoo (''Hierococcyx sparverioides'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It has a wide breeding distribution from temperate Asia along the Himalayas extending to East Asia. Many populations winter further south. They ...
, ''Hierococcyx sparverioides''
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Northern hawk-cuckoo, ''Hierococcyx hyperythrus''
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Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo
Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (''Hierococcyx nisicolor''), also known as the whistling hawk-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo found in north-eastern India, Myanmar, southern China and southeast Asia.
Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo is a brood parasite. The chick ev ...
, ''Hierococcyx nisicolor''
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Lesser cuckoo
The lesser cuckoo (''Cuculus poliocephalus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malawi, Mya ...
, ''Cuculus poliocephalus''
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Indian cuckoo
The Indian cuckoo (''Cuculus micropterus'') is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, that is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It ranges from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia ...
, ''Cuculus micropterus''
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Himalayan cuckoo
The Himalayan cuckoo (''Cuculus saturatus'') is a species of cuckoo in the genus ''Cuculus''. It breeds from the Himalayas eastward to southern China and Taiwan. It migrates to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter.
It was f ...
, ''Cuculus saturatus''
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Common cuckoo
The common cuckoo (''Cuculus canorus'') is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.
This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. I ...
, ''Cuculus canorus''
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Oriental cuckoo
The Oriental cuckoo or Horsfields cuckoo (''Cuculus optatus'') is a bird belonging to the genus ''Cuculus'' in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the Himalayan cuckoo (''C. saturatus''), with the name 'Orie ...
, ''Cuculus optatus''
Frogmouths
Order:
Caprimulgiformes
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tal ...
Family:
Podargidae
The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to the
nightjar
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk ta ...
s. They are named for their large flattened hooked bill and huge frog-like gape, which they use to take insects.
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Hodgson's frogmouth
Hodgson's frogmouth (''Batrachostomus hodgsoni'') is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
The common name ...
, ''Batrachostomus hodgsoni''
Nightjars and allies
Order:
Caprimulgiformes
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tal ...
Family:
Caprimulgidae
Nightjar
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk ta ...
s are medium-sized nocturnal birds that usually nest on the ground. They have long wings, short legs and very short bills. Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. Their soft plumage is camouflaged to resemble bark or leaves.
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Great eared-nightjar, ''Eurostopodus macrotis''
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Gray nightjar, ''Caprimulgus jotaka''
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Eurasian nightjar, ''Caprimulgus europaeus''
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Egyptian nightjar
The Egyptian nightjar (''Caprimulgus aegyptius'') is a medium-small nightjar which occurs in south west Asia and north Africa and winters in tropical Africa. This is a fairly common species with a wide distribution which faces no obvious threats ...
, ''Caprimulgus aegyptius''
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Large-tailed nightjar
The large-tailed nightjar (''Caprimulgus macrurus'') is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found along the southern Himalayan foothills, eastern South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. This species is a reside ...
, ''Caprimulgus macrurus''
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Savanna nightjar
The savanna nightjar, sometimes also allied nightjar or Franklin's nightjar, (''Caprimulgus affinis'') is a species of nightjar found in South and Southeast Asia. Eight subspecies are recognised: ''C. a. monticolus'', ''C. a. amoyensis'', ''C. ...
, ''Caprimulgus affinis''
Swifts
Order:
Caprimulgiformes
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tal ...
Family:
Apodidae
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes with hummingbirds. The treeswifts are closely ...
Swift
Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to:
* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
** SWIFT code
* Swift (programming language)
* Swift (bird), a family of birds
It may also refer to:
Organizations
* SWIFT, ...
s are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily on the ground, perching instead only on vertical surfaces. Many swifts have long swept-back wings which resemble a crescent or boomerang.
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White-throated needletail, ''Hirundapus caudacutus''
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Silver-backed needletail, ''Hirundapus cochinchinensis''
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Brown-backed needletail
The brown-backed needletail (''Hirundapus giganteus''), or brown needletail, is a large swift.
These birds have very short legs which they use only mainly for clinging to vertical surfaces. They never settle voluntarily on the ground and spend m ...
, ''Hirundapus giganteus'' (A)
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Himalayan swiftlet
The Himalayan swiftlet (''Aerodramus brevirostris'') is a small swift. It is a common colonial breeder in the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Some populations are migratory.
This swiftlet was formerly placed in the genus ''Collocalia''. Two of i ...
, ''Aerodramus brevirostris''
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Black-nest swiftlet
The black-nest swiftlet (''Aerodramus maximus'') is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropica ...
, ''Aerodramus maximus''
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White-nest swiftlet, ''Aerodramus fuciphagus''
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Germain's swiftlet, ''Aerodramus germani''
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Alpine swift, ''Apus melba'' (A)
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Common swift
The common swift (''Apus apus'') is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between t ...
, ''Apus apus''
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Pacific swift
The Pacific swift or fork-tailed swift (''Apus pacificus'') is a species of bird that is part of the Swift family. It breeds in eastern Asia. It is strongly migratory, spending the northern hemisphere's winter in Southeast Asia and Austral ...
, ''Apus pacificus''
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Salim Ali's swift
Salim Ali's swift (''Apus salimalii'') is a small bird, superficially similar to a house martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are ...
, ''Apus salimalii'' (E)
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Blyth's swift
Blyth's swift (''Apus leuconyx''), is a small bird, superficially similar to a house martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due t ...
, ''Apus leuconyx''
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Cook's swift
Cook's swift (''Apus cooki'') is a small bird, superficially similar to a house martin. It is, however, completely unrelated to those passerine species, since swifts are in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to con ...
, ''Apus cooki''
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Dark-rumped swift, ''Apus acuticauda'' (A)
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House swift
The house swift (''Apus nipalensis'') is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Japan, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. It is capable of flying long distances by alternately shutting off hemispheres of their brain in-flight. In May 2 ...
, ''Apus nipalensis''
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Asian palm-swift, ''Cypsiurus balasiensis''
Treeswifts
Order:
Caprimulgiformes
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills. They are sometimes called goatsuckers, due to the ancient folk tal ...
Family:
Hemiprocnidae
The treeswifts, also called crested swifts, are closely related to the
true swifts. They differ from the other swifts in that they have crests, long forked tails and softer plumage.
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Crested treeswift
The crested treeswift (''Hemiprocne coronata'') is a species of tree swift. It was for some time considered the same species as its eastern relative, the gray-rumped treeswift (''Hemiprocne longipennis''), but they do not interbreed where their ...
, ''Hemiprocne coronata''
Rails, gallinules, and coots
Order:
Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order (biology), order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird family (biology), families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like".
Traditionally, a number of wading and t ...
Family:
Rallidae
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized, ground-living birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules. Many species are associated with wetlands, althoug ...
Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the
rails
Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
*Rail transport and related matters
*Rail (rail transport) or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
Arts and media Film
* ''Rails'' (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
* ''Rail'' ( ...
,
crakes,
coot
Coots are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae. They constitute the genus ''Fulica'', the name being the Latin term for "coot". Coots have predominantly black plumage, and—unlike many rails—they are usually ...
s and
gallinule
Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus ''Gallinula'', Latin for "little hen".
They are close relatives of coots. They are of ...
s. Typically they inhabit dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, swamps or rivers. In general they are shy and secretive birds, making them difficult to observe. Most species have strong legs and long toes which are well adapted to soft uneven surfaces. They tend to have short, rounded wings and to be weak fliers.
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Water rail
The water rail (''Rallus aquaticus'') is a bird of the Rallidae, rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are bird migration, migratory, but this species is a perma ...
, ''Rallus aquaticus''
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Brown-cheeked rail
The brown-cheeked rail or eastern water rail (''Rallus indicus'') is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
It breeds in northern Mongolia, eastern Siberia, northeast China, Korea and northern Japan, and winters in southeast Asia.Taylor & van ...
, ''Rallus indicus''
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Corn crake
The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (''Crex crex'') is a bird in the rail family. It breeds in Europe and Asia as far east as western China, and migrates to Africa for the Northern Hemisphere's winter. It is a medium-sized crake with buff- ...
, ''Crex crex''
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Slaty-breasted rail
The slaty-breasted rail (''Lewinia striata'') is a rail species native to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Breeding has been recorded in July near Dehradun in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. Despite traditionally being consider ...
, ''Lewinia striata''
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Spotted crake
The spotted crake (''Porzana porzana'') is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae. The scientific name is derived from Venetian terms for small rails.
The spotted crake's breeding habitat is marshes and sedge beds across temperate Europe into ...
, ''Porzana porzana''
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Eurasian moorhen, ''Gallinula chloropus''
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Eurasian coot
The Eurasian coot (''Fulica atra''), also known as the common coot, or Australian coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae. It is found in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North Africa. It has a slaty-bla ...
, ''Fulica atra''
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Grey-headed swamphen
The grey-headed swamphen (''Porphyrio poliocephalus'') is a species of swamphen occurring from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, b ...
, ''Porphyrio poliocephalus''
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White-browed crake
The white-browed crake (''Poliolimnas cinereus'') is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the ...
, ''Poliolimnas cinereus'' (A)
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Watercock
The watercock (''Gallicrex cinerea'') is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae that is widely distributed across Southeast Asia. It is the only member of the genus ''Gallicrex''.
Taxonomy
The watercock was formally described in 17 ...
, ''Gallicrex cinerea''
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White-breasted waterhen
The white-breasted waterhen (''Amaurornis phoenicurus'') is a waterbird of the rail and crake family, Rallidae, that is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia. They are dark slaty birds with a clean white face, breast and belly. They ...
, ''Amaurornis phoenicurus''
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Red-legged crake
The red-legged crake (''Rallina fasciata'') is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.
Description
It is a medium-large crake (length 24 cm). Its head, neck and breast red-brown, paler on throat. Its upper parts are grey-brown. ...
, ''Rallina fasciata'' (A)
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Slaty-legged crake, ''Rallina eurizonoides''
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Ruddy-breasted crake
The ruddy-breasted crake (''Zapornia fusca''), or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae.
Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas across South Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to south China, Japa ...
, ''Zapornia fusca''
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Band-bellied crake, ''Zapornia paykullii''
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Brown crake, ''Zapornia akool''
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Little crake
The little crake (''Zapornia parva'') is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae. ''parva'' is Latin for "small".
Its breeding habitat is reed beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and just into western Asia. This species is migratory, wi ...
, ''Zapornia parva''
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Baillon's crake
Baillon's crake (''Zapornia pusilla''), also known as the marsh crake, is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
Distribution
Their breeding habitat is sedge beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and across the Palearctic. They used to breed i ...
, ''Zapornia pusilla''
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Black-tailed crake, ''Zapornia bicolor''
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Swinhoe's rail, ''Coturnicops exquisitus''
Cranes
Order:
Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order (biology), order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird family (biology), families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like".
Traditionally, a number of wading and t ...
Family:
Gruidae
Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances". China has the greatest diversity of cranes of any country.
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Demoiselle crane, ''Anthropoides virgo''
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Siberian crane
The Siberian crane (''Leucogeranus leucogeranus''), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes: adults are nearly all snowy white, except for their ...
, ''Leucogeranus leucogeranus''
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Sandhill crane
The sandhill crane (''Antigone canadensis'') is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on t ...
, ''Antigone canadensis'' (A)
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Sarus crane, '' Antigone antigone''
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White-naped crane
The white-naped crane (''Antigone vipio'') is a bird of the crane family. It is a large bird, long, about tall, and weighing about , with pinkish legs, a grey-and-white-striped neck, and a red face patch.
Distribution
The white-naped crane br ...
, ''Antigone vipio''
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Common crane
The common crane (''Grus grus''), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly found in Europe besides the demoiselle crane (''Grus virgo'') and the Siberi ...
, ''Grus grus''
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Hooded crane
The hooded crane (''Grus monacha'') is a crane native to East Asia and a frequent migratory bird in Japan.
Description
It has a grey body. The top of the neck and head is white, except for a patch of bare red skin above the eye. It is one of t ...
, ''Grus monacha''
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Black-necked crane
The black-necked Crane (''Grus nigricollis'') is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan. It is 139 cm (55 in) long with a 235 cm (7.8 ft) wingspan, and it weighs ...
, ''Grus nigricollis''
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Red-crowned crane
The red-crowned crane (''Grus japonensis''), also called the Manchurian crane or Japanese crane (; the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cran ...
, ''Grus japonensis''
Thick-knees
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Burhinidae
The stone-curlews, also known as dikkops or thick-knees, consist of 10 species within the family Burhinidae, and are found throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world, with two or more species occurring in some areas of Africa, Asia, ...
The thick-knees are a group of largely tropical waders in the family Burhinidae. They are found worldwide within the tropical zone, with some species also breeding in temperate Europe and Australia. They are medium to large waders with strong black or yellow-black bills, large yellow eyes and cryptic plumage. Despite being classed as waders, most species have a preference for arid or semi-arid habitats.
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Eurasian thick-knee, ''Burhinus oedicnemus''
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Great thick-knee
The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (''Esacus recurvirostris'') is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh into South-east Asia.
Taxonomy
The great stone-curlew was ...
, ''Esacus recurvirostris''
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Beach thick-knee
The beach stone-curlew (''Esacus magnirostris'') also known as beach thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia. At and , it is one of the world's largest shorebirds. At a mean of in ...
, ''Esacus magnirostris'' (A)
Avocets and stilts
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Recurvirostridae
The Recurvirostridae are a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups of birds, the avocets (one genus) and the stilts (two genera).
Description
Avocets and stilts range in length from and in weight fro ...
Recurvirostridae is a family of large wading birds, which includes the
avocet
The four species of avocets are a genus, ''Recurvirostra'', of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin , 'curved backwards' and , 'bill'. The common name is thought to derive from the Italian ( Ferrarese) w ...
s and
stilt
Stilt is a common name for several species of birds in the family Recurvirostridae, which also includes those known as avocets. They are found in brackish or saline wetlands in warm or hot climates.
They have extremely long legs, hence the grou ...
s. The avocets have long legs and long up-curved bills. The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin, straight bills.
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Black-winged stilt
The black-winged stilt (''Himantopus himantopus'') is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). The scientific name ''H. himantopus'' is sometimes applied to a single, almost cosmopolitan speci ...
, ''Himantopus himantopus''
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Pied avocet
The pied avocet (''Recurvirostra avosetta'') is a large black and white wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. They breed in temperate Europe and across the Palearctic to Central Asia then on to the Russian Far East. It is a ...
, ''Recurvirostra avosetta''
Ibisbill
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Ibidorhynchidae
The ibisbill is related to the
wader
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Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wikt:wade#Etymology 1, wading along shorelines and mudflat ...
s, but is sufficiently distinctive to be a family unto itself. The adult is gray with a white belly, red legs, a long down curved bill, and a black face and breast band.
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Ibisbill
The ibisbill (''Ibidorhyncha struthersii'') is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is grey with a white belly, red legs and long down-curved bill, and a black face and black breas ...
, ''Ibidorhyncha struthersii''
Oystercatchers
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Haematopodidae
The
oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, ''Haematopus''. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The e ...
s are large and noisy
plover
Plovers ( , ) are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
Description
There are about 66 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing subfa ...
-like birds, with strong bills used for smashing or prising open
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s.
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Eurasian oystercatcher
The Eurasian oystercatcher (''Haematopus ostralegus'') also known as the common pied oystercatcher, or palaearctic oystercatcher, or (in Europe) just oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae. It is the most widesp ...
, ''Haematopus ostralegus''
Plovers and lapwings
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Charadriidae
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 68 species in all.
Taxonomy
The family Charadriidae was introduced (as Charadriadæ) by the English zoologist William Elford Leach in a guide to the con ...
The family Charadriidae includes the
plover
Plovers ( , ) are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
Description
There are about 66 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing subfa ...
s,
dotterel
The Eurasian dotterel (''Charadrius morinellus''), also known in Europe as just dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
The dotterel is a brown and black streaked bird with a broad white eye-stripe and an orange-red chest ban ...
s and
lapwing
Lapwings (subfamily Vanellinae) are any of various ground-nesting birds (family Charadriidae) akin to plovers and dotterels. They range from in length, and are noted for their slow, irregular wingbeats in flight and a shrill, wailing cry. A gro ...
s. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short, thick necks and long, usually pointed, wings. They are found in open country worldwide, mostly in habitats near water.
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Black-bellied plover
The grey plover or black-bellied plover (''Pluvialis squatarola'') is a large plover breeding in Arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly worldwide coastal distribution when not breeding.
Taxonomy
The grey plover was forma ...
, ''Pluvialis squatarola''
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European golden-plover
The European golden plover (''Pluvialis apricaria''), also known as the European golden-plover, Eurasian golden plover, or just the golden plover within Europe, is a largish plover. This species is similar to two other golden plovers: the America ...
, ''Pluvialis apricaria'' (A)
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Pacific golden-plover, ''Pluvialis fulva''
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Northern lapwing
The northern lapwing (''Vanellus vanellus''), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tew-it, green plover, or (in Ireland and Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia. ...
, ''Vanellus vanellus''
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River lapwing, ''Vanellus duvaucelii''
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Gray-headed lapwing, ''Vanellus cinereus''
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Red-wattled lapwing
The red-wattled lapwing (''Vanellus indicus'') is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicat ...
, ''Vanellus indicus''
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Sociable lapwing
The sociable lapwing (''Vanellus gregarius''), historically referred to as the sociable plover, is a wader in the plover family. It is a fully migratory bird, breeding in Kazakhstan and wintering in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, and Suda ...
, ''Vanellus gregarius'' (A) (Ex?)
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White-tailed lapwing
The white-tailed lapwing or white-tailed plover (''Vanellus leucurus'') is a wader in the lapwing genus. The genus name ''Vanellus'' is Medieval Latin for a lapwing and derives from ''vannus'' a winnowing fan. The specific ''leucurus'' is from A ...
, ''Vanellus leucurus'' (A)
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Lesser sand-plover
The lesser sand plover (''Charadrius mongolus'') is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as lesser sand-plover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "lesser sand plover". The genus ...
, ''Charadrius mongolus''
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Greater sand-plover
The greater sand plover (''Charadrius leschenaultii'') is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Gre ...
, ''Charadrius leschenaultii''
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Caspian plover
The Caspian plover (''Charadrius asiaticus'') is a wader in the plover family of birds. The genus name ''Charadrius'' is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ''kharadrios'' ...
, ''Charadrius asiaticus''
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Kentish plover
The Kentish plover (''Charadrius alexandrinus'') is a small cosmopolitan shorebird (40-44 g) of the family Charadriidae that breeds on the shores of saline lakes, lagoons, and coasts, populating sand dunes, marshes, semi-arid desert, and tundra.S ...
, ''Charadrius alexandrinus''
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White-faced plover
The white-faced plover (''Charadrius dealbatus'') is a small shorebird of the family Charadriidae. Initially described by British ornithologist Robert Swinhoe, the bird resembles the Kentish plover (''Charadrius alexandrinus'') with which it ha ...
, ''Charadrius dealbatus''
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Common ringed plover
The common ringed plover or ringed plover (''Charadrius hiaticula'') is a small plover that breeds in Arctic Eurasia. The genus name ''Charadrius'' is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from ...
, ''Charadrius hiaticula''
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Semipalmated plover
The semipalmated plover (''Charadrius semipalmatus'') is a small plover. ''Charadrius'' is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ''kharadrios'' a bird found in ravines and ri ...
, ''Charadrius semipalmatus''
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Long-billed plover
The long-billed plover (''Charadrius placidus'') is a species of wading bird in the family Charadriidae. It can be found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepa ...
, ''Charadrius placidus''
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Little ringed plover
The little ringed plover (''Charadrius dubius'') is a small plover. The genus name ''Charadrius'' is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek ''kharadrios'' a bird found in river ...
, ''Charadrius dubius''
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Oriental plover
The oriental plover (''Charadrius veredus''), also known as the oriental dotterel, is a medium-sized plover closely related to the Caspian plover. It breeds in parts of Mongolia and China, migrating southwards each year to spend its non-breedi ...
, ''Charadrius veredus''
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Eurasian dotterel
The Eurasian dotterel (''Charadrius morinellus''), also known in Europe as just dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
The dotterel is a brown and black streaked bird with a broad white eye-stripe and an orange-red chest ban ...
, ''Charadrius morinellus''
Painted-snipes
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Rostratulidae
Painted-snipes are short-legged, long-billed birds similar in shape to the true snipes, but more brightly colored.
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Greater painted-snipe
The greater painted-snipe (''Rostratula benghalensis'') is a species of wader in the family Rostratulidae. It is found in marshes in Africa, South Asia and South-east Asia.
Description
Medium-sized, plump wading bird. Long reddish-brown bill, s ...
, ''Rostratula benghalensis''
Jacanas
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Jacanidae
The jacanas (sometimes referred to as Jesus birds or lily trotters) are a group of tropical waders in the family Jacanidae. They are found in the tropical regions around the world. They are noted for their elongated toes and toenails that allow ...
The jacanas are a group of tropical waders in the family Jacanidae. They are found throughout the tropics. They are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.
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Pheasant-tailed jacana
The pheasant-tailed jacana (''Hydrophasianus chirurgus'') is a jacana in the monotypic genus ''Hydrophasianus''. Like all other jacanas, they have elongated toes and nails that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their p ...
, ''Hydrophasianus chirurgus''
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Bronze-winged jacana
The bronze-winged jacana (''Metopidius indicus'') is a wader in the family Jacanidae. It is found across South and Southeast Asia and is the sole species in the genus ''Metopidius''. Like other jacanas it forages on lilies and other floating aqu ...
, ''Metopidius indicus'' (A)
Sandpipers and allies
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Scolopacidae
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. ...
Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the
sandpiper
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. ...
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curlew
The curlews () are a group of nine species of birds in the genus ''Numenius'', characterised by their long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage. The English name is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been in ...
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godwit
The godwits are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus ''Limosa''. Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. In their winter range, they floc ...
s,
shanks,
tattlers,
woodcock
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus ''Scolopax''. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name ...
s,
snipe
A snipe is any of about 26 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterized by a very long, slender bill, eyes placed high on the head, and cryptic/camouflaging plumage. The ''Gallinago'' snipes have a near ...
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dowitcher
The three dowitchers are medium-sized long-billed wading birds in the genus ''Limnodromus''. The English name "dowitchers" is from Iroquois, recorded in English by the 1830s. The OED's earliest example is from 1841, but full-text searching giv ...
s and
phalarope
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A phalarope is any of three living species of slender-necked shorebirds in the genus ''Phalaropus'' of the bird family Scolopacidae.
Phalaropes are close relatives of the shanks and tattlers, the ''Actitis'' and Terek sandpipers, a ...
s. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Variation in length of legs and bills enables multiple species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
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Whimbrel, ''Numenius phaeopus''
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Little curlew
The little curlew (''Numenius minutus'') is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It is a very small curlew, which breeds in the far north of Siberia. It is closely related to the North American Eskimo curlew.
The word "curlew" is imita ...
, ''Numenius minutus''
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Far Eastern curlew
The Far Eastern curlew (''Numenius madagascariensis'') is a large shorebird most similar in appearance to the long-billed curlew, but slightly larger. It is mostly brown in color, differentiated from other curlews by its plain, unpatterned brown ...
, ''Numenius madagascariensis''
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Eurasian curlew
The Eurasian curlew or common curlew (''Numenius arquata'') is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across temperate Europe and Asia. In Europe, this species is often referred t ...
, ''Numenius arquata''
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Bar-tailed godwit
The bar-tailed godwit (''Limosa lapponica'') is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding plumage, long legs, an ...
, ''Limosa lapponica''
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Black-tailed godwit, ''Limosa limosa''
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Ruddy turnstone
The ruddy turnstone (''Arenaria interpres'') is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus ''Arenaria''.
It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plov ...
, ''Arenaria interpres''
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Great knot
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The great knot (''Calidris tenuirostris'') is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside bird ...
, ''Calidris tenuirostris''
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Red knot
The red knot or just knot (''Calidris canutus'') is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the ''Calidris'' sandpipers, second only to the ...
, ''Calidris canutus''
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Ruff
Ruff may refer to:
Places
*Ruff, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
*Ruff, Washington, United States, an unincorporated community
Other uses
*Ruff (bird) (''Calidris pugnax'' or ''Philomachus pugnax''), a bird in the wader fami ...
, ''Calidris pugnax''
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Broad-billed sandpiper
The broad-billed sandpiper (''Calidris falcinellus'') is a small wading bird. The scientific name is from Latin. The specific name ''falcinella'' is from ''falx, falcis'', "a sickle. Some research suggests that it should rather go into the gen ...
, ''Calidris falcinellus''
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Sharp-tailed sandpiper
The sharp-tailed sandpiper (''Calidris acuminata'') (but see below) is a small wader.
Taxonomy
A review of data has indicated that this bird should perhaps better be placed into the genus ''Philomachus''
– as ''P. acuminatus'' – which now ...
, ''Calidris acuminata''
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Curlew sandpiper
The curlew sandpiper (''Calidris ferruginea'') is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.
It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. It is a va ...
, ''Calidris ferruginea''
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Temminck's stint
Temminck's stint (''Calidris temminckii'') is a small wader. This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by ...
, ''Calidris temminckii''
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Long-toed stint
The long-toed stint (''Calidris subminuta'') is a small wader. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ''subminuta'' is from Latin ''sub'', ...
, ''Calidris subminuta''
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Spoon-billed sandpiper, ''Calidris pygmeus''
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Red-necked stint
The red-necked stint (''Calidris ruficollis'') is a small migratory wader. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ''ruficollis'' is from La ...
, ''Calidris ruficollis''
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Sanderling
The sanderling (''Calidris alba'') is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English ''sand-yrðling'', "sand-ploughman". The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-colou ...
, ''Calidris alba''
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Dunlin
The dunlin (''Calidris alpina'') is a small wader, formerly sometimes separated with the other "stints" in the genus ''Erolia''. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from ''dun'', "dull brown ...
, ''Calidris alpina''
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Rock sandpiper
The rock sandpiper (''Calidris ptilocnemis'') is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. This is a hardy sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and subarctic regions of Alaska and the Chukotka and Kamchatka Peninsulas. It is closely ...
, ''Calidris ptilocnemis'' (A)
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Baird's sandpiper, ''Calidris bairdii'' (A)
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Little stint
The little stint (''Calidris minuta'' or ''Erolia minuta''), is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America a ...
, ''Calidris minuta''
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White-rumped sandpiper
The white-rumped sandpiper (''Calidris fuscicollis'') is a small shorebird that breeds in the northern tundra of Canada and Alaska. This bird can be difficult to distinguish from other similar tiny shorebirds; these are known collectively as "pee ...
, ''Calidris fuscicollis'' (A)
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Pectoral sandpiper
The pectoral sandpiper (''Calidris melanotos'') is a small, migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania. It eats small invertebrates. Its nest, a hole scraped in the ground and with a thick linin ...
, ''Calidris melanotos'' (A)
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Western sandpiper
The western sandpiper (''Calidris mauri'') is a small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ''mauri'' commemorates Italian bota ...
, ''Calidris mauri'' (A)
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Asian dowitcher
The Asian dowitcher (''Limnodromus semipalmatus'') is a rare medium-large wader.
Description
Adults have dark legs and a long straight dark bill, somewhat shorter than that of the long-billed dowitcher. The body is brown on top and reddish under ...
, ''Limnodromus semipalmatus''
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Long-billed dowitcher
The long-billed dowitcher (''Limnodromus scolopaceus'') is a medium-sized shorebird with a relatively long bill belonging to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae. In breeding plumage, adults are characterized by a beautiful rufous head and underpar ...
, ''Limnodromus scolopaceus'' (A)
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Jack snipe
The jack snipe or jacksnipe (''Lymnocryptes minimus'') is a small stocky wader. It is the smallest snipe, and the only member of the genus ''Lymnocryptes''. Features such as its sternum make it quite distinct from other snipes or woodcocks.
Et ...
, ''Lymnocryptes minimus''
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Eurasian woodcock
The Eurasian woodcock (''Scolopax rusticola'') is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its woodland habitat, with reddish-brown upperparts and buff-coloured underparts. Its eyes ...
, ''Scolopax rusticola''
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Solitary snipe, ''Gallinago solitaria''
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Latham's snipe
Latham's snipe (''Gallinago hardwickii''), also known as the Japanese snipe, is a medium-sized, long-billed, migratory snipe of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.
Description
The snipe is 29–33 cm long, with a wingspan of 50–54  ...
, ''Gallinago hardwickii'' (A)
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Wood snipe
The wood snipe (''Gallinago nemoricola'') is a species of snipe which breeds in the Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and southern China. In winter, it occurs at lower altitudes in the Himalayas, as a regular visitor in small numbers to ...
, ''Gallinago nemoricola''
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Common snipe
The common snipe (''Gallinago gallinago'') is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World.
The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout the Palearctic. In the north, the distribution limit extends from Iceland ...
, ''Gallinago gallinago''
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Pin-tailed snipe
Pintail snipe head and bill
The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (''Gallinago stenura'') is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers.
Distribution
It breeds in northern Russia and migrates to spend the non-breeding season i ...
, ''Gallinago stenura''
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Swinhoe's snipe
Swinhoe's snipe, (''Gallinago megala''), also known as forest snipe or Chinese snipe, is a medium-sized (length 27–29 cm, wingspan 38–44 cm, weight 120 gm), long-billed, migratory wader.
The common name commemorates the British na ...
, ''Gallinago megala''
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Terek sandpiper
The Terek sandpiper (''Xenus cinereus'') is a small migratory Palearctic wader species and is the only member of the genus ''Xenus''. It is named after the Terek River which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea, as it was first observed arou ...
, ''Xenus cinereus''
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Red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope (''Phalaropus lobatus''), also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a ...
, ''Phalaropus lobatus''
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Red phalarope, ''Phalaropus fulicarius'' (A)
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Common sandpiper
The common sandpiper (''Actitis hypoleucos'') is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (''A. macularia''), make up the genus ''Actitis''. They are parapatric and replace each other geographic ...
, ''Actitis hypoleucos''
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Green sandpiper
The green sandpiper (''Tringa ochropus'') is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World.
The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus ''Tringa''; its only close living relative is the solitary sandpiper (''T. solitaria''). They ...
, ''Tringa ochropus''
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Gray-tailed tattler, ''Tringa brevipes''
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Spotted redshank
The spotted redshank (''Tringa erythropus'') is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek ''trungas'', a ...
, ''Tringa erythropus''
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Common greenshank
The common greenshank (''Tringa nebularia'') is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek ''trungas'' ...
, ''Tringa nebularia''
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Nordmann's greenshank
Nordmann's greenshank (''Tringa guttifer'') or the spotted greenshank, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders.
Description
The Nordmann's greenshank is a medium-sized sandpiper, at long, with a slightly upturned, bicol ...
, ''Tringa guttifer''
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Marsh sandpiper
The marsh sandpiper (''Tringa stagnatilis'') is a small wader. It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to the Russian Far East. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the New Latin name given ...
, ''Tringa stagnatilis''
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Wood sandpiper
The wood sandpiper (''Tringa glareola'') is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the New Latin name given to the gree ...
, ''Tringa glareola''
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Common redshank
The common redshank or simply redshank (''Tringa totanus'') is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae.
Taxonomy
The common redshank was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his ...
, ''Tringa totanus''
Buttonquail
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Turnicidae
Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae. They inhabit warm grasslands in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia. There are 18 species in two genera ...
The buttonquail are small, drab, running birds which resemble the true quails. The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young.
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Small buttonquail
The common buttonquail (''Turnix sylvaticus''), also called Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble but are unrelated to the true of quails.
Description
Th ...
, ''Turnix sylvatica''
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Yellow-legged buttonquail
The yellow-legged buttonquail (''Turnix tanki'') is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This family is peculiar in that the females are larger and more colourful than the males and ...
, ''Turnix tanki''
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Barred buttonquail
The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (''Turnix suscitator'') is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are closely related to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south ...
, ''Turnix suscitator''
Pratincoles and coursers
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Glareolidae
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The atypical Egyptian plover (''Pluvianus aegyptius''), traditionally placed in this family, is now known to ...
Glareolidae is a family of wading birds comprising the
pratincole
The pratincoles or greywaders are a group of birds which together with the coursers make up the family Glareolidae. They have short legs, very long pointed wings and long forked tails.
Description
Their most unusual feature for birds classed a ...
s, which have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails, and the
courser
The coursers are a group of birds which together with the pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae. They have long legs, short wings and long pointed bills which curve downwards. Their most unusual feature for birds classed as waders is that ...
s, which have long legs, short wings and long, pointed bills which curve downwards.
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Collared pratincole
The collared pratincole (''Glareola pratincola''), also known as the common pratincole or red-winged pratincole, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. As with other pratincoles, it is native to the Old World.
Taxonomy
The collared p ...
, ''Glareola pratincola''
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Oriental pratincole
The oriental pratincole (''Glareola maldivarum''), also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
Etymology
The genus name is a diminutive of Latin ''glarea'', "gravel", referring to a ty ...
, ''Glareola maldivarum''
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Black-winged pratincole
The black-winged pratincole (''Glareola nordmanni'') is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin ''glarea'', "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species nam ...
, ''Glareola nordmanni'' (A)
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Small pratincole
The small pratincole, little pratincole, or small Indian pratincole (''Glareola lactea''), is a small wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
Distribution
The small pratincole is a resident breeder in India, Western Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bur ...
, ''Glareola lactea''
Skuas and jaegers
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Stercorariidae
The family Stercorariidae are, in general, medium to large birds, typically with gray or brown plumage, often with white markings on the wings. They nest on the ground in temperate and arctic regions and are long-distance migrants.
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South polar skua
The south polar skua (''Stercorarius maccormicki'') is a large seabird in the skua family, Stercorariidae. An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specimen. ...
, ''Stercorarius maccormicki'' (A)
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Pomarine jaeger
The pomarine jaeger (''Stercorarius pomarinus''), pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
Taxonomy
Its relationships are not fully resolved; i ...
, ''Stercorarius pomarinus'' (A)
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Parasitic jaeger
The parasitic jaeger (''Stercorarius parasiticus''), also known as the Arctic skua, Arctic jaeger or parasitic skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migratory species that breeds in Northern Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, ...
, ''Stercorarius parasiticus''
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Long-tailed jaeger
The long-tailed skua or long-tailed jaeger (''Stercorarius longicaudus'') is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae.
Etymology
The word "jaeger" is derived from the German word ''Jäger'', meaning "hunter". The English word "skua" comes fr ...
, ''Stercorarius longicaudus'' (A)
Auks, murres and puffins
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Alcidae
An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets. The word "auk" is derived from Icelandic ''álka'', from Old Norse ''alka'' (a ...
Alcids are superficially similar to penguins due to their black-and-white colors, their upright posture and some of their habits, however they are not related to the penguins and differ in being able to fly. Auks live on the open sea, only deliberately coming ashore to nest.
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Long-billed murrelet
The long-billed murrelet (''Brachyramphus perdix'') is a small seabird from the North Pacific. The genus name ''Brachyramphus'' is from Ancient Greek ''brakhus'', "short", and ''rhamphos'', "bill". The species name ''perdix'' is Latin for "partr ...
, ''Brachyramphus perdix''
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Ancient murrelet
The ancient murrelet (') is a bird in the auk family. The English term "murrelet" is a diminutive of "murre", a word of uncertain origins, but which may imitate the call of the common guillemot. Ancient murrelets are called "ancient" because th ...
, ''Synthliboramphus antiquus''
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Japanese murrelet
The Japanese murrelet or crested murrelet (''Synthliboramphus wumizusume'') is a small seabird in the auk family that occurs along the remote rocky coasts and in the offshore waters of Japan, and may also be found after the breeding season as far ...
, ''Synthliboramphus wumizusume''
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Rhinoceros auklet
The rhinoceros auklet (''Cerorhinca monocerata'') is a seabird and a close relative of the puffins. It is the only extant species of the genus ''Cerorhinca''. Given its close relationship with the puffins, the common name rhinoceros puffin has b ...
, ''Cerorhinca monocerata''
Gulls, terns, and skimmers
Order:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes (, from ''Charadrius'', the type genus of family Charadriidae) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most charadriiform birds live near water an ...
Family:
Laridae
Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, skimmers and kittiwakes. It includes around 100 species arranged into 22 genera. They are an adaptable group of mostly aerial birds found worldwide. ...
Laridae is a family of medium to large
seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
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gull
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, m ...
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tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated as a subgroup of the family Laridae which includes gulls and skimmers and consists of e ...
s and
skimmers. Gulls are typically gray or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with gray or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water. Terns are generally long-lived birds, with several species known to live in excess of 30 years. Skimmers are a small family of tropical tern-like birds. They have an elongated lower mandible which they use to feed by flying low over the water surface and skimming the water for small fish.
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Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (''Rissa tridactyla'') is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' as ''Larus tridactylus''. The English ...
, ''Rissa tridactyla''
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Saunders's gull, ''Saundersilarus saundersi''
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Slender-billed gull
The slender-billed gull (''Chroicocephalus genei'') is a mid-sized gull which breeds very locally around the Mediterranean and the north of the western Indian Ocean (e.g. Pakistan) on islands and coastal lagoons. Most of the population is somewh ...
, ''Chroicocephalus genei''
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Silver gull
The silver gull (''Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae'') is the most common gull of Australia. It has been found throughout the continent, but particularly at or near coastal areas. It is smaller than the Pacific gull (''Larus pacificus''), which ...
, ''Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae'' (A)
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Black-headed gull
The black-headed gull (''Chroicocephalus ridibundus'') is a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic including Europe and also in coastal eastern Canada. Most of the population is migratory and winters further south, but some birds res ...
, ''Chroicocephalus ridibundus''
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Brown-headed gull
The brown-headed gull (''Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus'') is a small gull which breeds in the high plateaus of central Asia from Tajikistan to Ordos in Inner Mongolia. It is migratory, wintering on the coasts and large inland lakes of the India ...
, ''Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus''
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Little gull
The little gull (''Hydrocoloeus minutus'' or ''Larus minutus''), is a small gull that breeds in northern Europe and across the Palearctic. The genus name ''Hydrocoloeus'' is from Ancient Greek , "water", and , a sort of web-footed bird. The speci ...
, ''Hydrocoloeus minutus''
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Ross's gull
Ross's gull (''Rhodostethia rosea'') is a small gull, the only species in its genus, although it has been suggested it should be moved to the genus '' Hydrocoloeus'', which otherwise only includes the little gull.
This bird is named after the Br ...
, ''Rhodostethia rosea'' (A)
*Franklin's gull, ''Leucophaeus pipixcan'' (A)
*Relict gull, ''Ichthyaetus relictus''
*Pallas's gull, ''Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus''
*Black-tailed gull, ''Larus crassirostris''
*Common gull, ''Larus canus''
*European herring gull, Herring gull, ''Larus argentatus''
*Caspian gull, ''Larus cachinnans''
*Lesser black-backed gull, ''Larus fuscus''
*Slaty-backed gull, ''Larus schistisagus''
*Glaucous-winged gull, ''Larus glaucescens'' (A)
*Glaucous gull, ''Larus hyperboreus''
*Brown noddy, ''Anous stolidus''
*White tern, ''Gygis alba''
*Sooty tern, ''Onychoprion fuscatus''
*Bridled tern, ''Onychoprion anaethetus''
*Aleutian tern, ''Onychoprion aleuticus'' (A)
*Little tern, ''Sternula albifrons''
*Gull-billed tern, ''Gelochelidon nilotica''
*Caspian tern, ''Hydroprogne caspia''
*Black tern, ''Chlidonias niger''
*White-winged tern, ''Chlidonias leucopterus''
*Whiskered tern, ''Chlidonias hybrida''
*Roseate tern, ''Sterna dougallii''
*Black-naped tern, ''Sterna sumatrana''
*Common tern, ''Sterna hirundo''
*Black-bellied tern, ''Sterna acuticauda''
*River tern (bird), River tern, ''Sterna aurantia''
*Great crested tern, ''Thalasseus bergii''
*Sandwich tern, ''Thalasseus sandvicensis'' (A)
*Lesser crested tern, ''Thalasseus bengalensis'' (A)
*Chinese crested tern, ''Thalasseus bernsteini''
Tropicbirds
Order: PhaethontiformesFamily: Phaethontidae
Tropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers. Their heads and long wings have black markings.
*White-tailed tropicbird, ''Phaethon lepturus''
*Red-billed tropicbird, ''Phaethon aethereus''
*Red-tailed tropicbird, ''Phaethon rubricauda''
Loons
Order: GaviiformesFamily: Gaviidae
Loons, known as divers in Europe, are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Europe. They are the size of a large duck or small goose, which they somewhat resemble when swimming, but to which they are completely unrelated.
*Red-throated loon, ''Gavia stellata''
*Arctic loon, ''Gavia arctica''
*Pacific loon, ''Gavia pacifica''
*Yellow-billed loon, ''Gavia adamsii'' (A)
Albatrosses
Order: ProcellariiformesFamily: Diomedeidae
The albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus ''Diomedea'' have the largest wingspans of any extant birds.
*Black-footed albatross, ''Phoebastria nigripes''
*Short-tailed albatross, ''Phoebastria albatrus'' (A)
Southern storm-petrels
Order: ProcellariiformesFamily: Oceanitidae
The southern storm-petrels are relatives of the petrels and are the smallest seabirds. They feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hovering.
*Wilson's storm-petrel, ''Oceanites oceanicus'' (A)
Northern storm-petrels
Order: ProcellariiformesFamily: Hydrobatidae
The northern storm-petrels are relatives of the petrels and are the smallest seabirds. They feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hovering. The flight is fluttering and sometimes bat-like.
*Leach's storm-petrel, ''Hydrobates leucorhous'' (A)
*Swinhoe's storm-petrel, ''Hydrobates monorhis''
Shearwaters and petrels
![Streaked_shearwater_sitting](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Streaked_shearwater_sitting.jpg)
Order: ProcellariiformesFamily: Procellariidae
The procellariids are the main group of medium-sized "true petrels", characterized by united nostrils with medium septum and a long outer functional primary.
*Northern fulmar, ''Fulmarus glacialis'' (A)
*Bonin petrel, ''Pterodroma hypoleuca''
*Bulwer's petrel, ''Bulweria bulwerii''
*Tahiti petrel, ''Pseudobulweria rostrata''
*Streaked shearwater, ''Calonectris leucomelas''
*Wedge-tailed shearwater, ''Ardenna pacifica''
*Sooty shearwater, ''Ardenna grisea''
*Short-tailed shearwater, ''Ardenna tenuirostris'' (A)
Storks
![Ciconia_boyciana_in_flight](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Ciconia_boyciana_in_flight.JPG)
Order: CiconiiformesFamily: Ciconiidae
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked, wading birds with long, stout bills. Storks are mute, but bill-clattering is an important mode of communication at the nest. Their nests can be large and may be reused for many years. Many species are migratory.
*Asian openbill, ''Anastomus oscitans''
*Black stork, ''Ciconia nigra''
*Asian woolly-necked stork, ''Ciconia episcopus''
*White stork, ''Ciconia ciconia'' (A)
*Oriental stork, ''Ciconia boyciana''
*Lesser adjutant, ''Leptoptilos javanicus''
*Painted stork, ''Mycteria leucocephala''
Frigatebirds
Order: SuliformesFamily: Fregatidae
Frigatebirds are large seabirds usually found over tropical oceans. They are large, black-and-white or completely black, with long wings and deeply forked tails. The males have colored inflatable throat pouches. They do not swim or walk and cannot take off from a flat surface. Having the largest wingspan-to-body-weight ratio of any bird, they are essentially aerial, able to stay aloft for more than a week.
*Lesser frigatebird, ''Fregata ariel'' (A)
*Christmas Island frigatebird, ''Fregata andrewsi'' (A)
*Great frigatebird, ''Fregata minor''
Boobies and gannets
Order: SuliformesFamily: Sulidae
The sulids comprise the gannets and Booby, boobies. Both groups are medium to large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish.
*Masked booby, ''Sula dactylatra''
*Brown booby, ''Sula leucogaster''
*Red-footed booby, ''Sula sula''
Cormorants and shags
Order: SuliformesFamily: Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of medium to large coastal, fish-eating seabirds that includes cormorants and shags. Plumage coloration varies, with the majority having mainly dark plumage, some species being black-and-white and a few being colorful.
*Little cormorant, ''Microcarbo niger''
*Pygmy cormorant, ''Microcarbo pygmaeus'' (A)
*Red-faced cormorant, ''Urile urile'' (A)
*Pelagic cormorant, ''Urile pelagicus''
*Great cormorant, ''Phalacrocorax carbo''
*Japanese cormorant, ''Phalacrocorax capillatus''
Pelicans
Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Pelecanidae
Pelicans are large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. As with other members of the order Pelecaniformes, they have webbed feet with four toes.
*Great white pelican, ''Pelecanus onocrotalus''
*Spot-billed pelican, ''Pelecanus philippensis''
*Dalmatian pelican, ''Pelecanus crispus''
Herons, egrets, and bitterns
![Yellow_Bittern_at_Hyoko](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Yellow_Bittern_at_Hyoko.JPG)
Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Ardeidae
The family Ardeidae contains the bitterns, herons and egrets. Herons and egrets are medium to large wading birds with long necks and legs. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more wary. Members of Ardeidae fly with their necks retracted, unlike other long-necked birds such as storks, ibises and spoonbills.
*Great bittern, ''Botaurus stellaris''
*Yellow bittern, ''Ixobrychus sinensis''
*Little bittern, ''Ixobrychus minutus''
*Schrenck's bittern, ''Ixobrychus eurhythmus''
*Cinnamon bittern, ''Ixobrychus cinnamomeus''
*Black bittern, ''Ixobrychus flavicollis''
*Gray heron, ''Ardea cinerea''
*White-bellied heron, ''Ardea insignis''
*Great-billed heron, ''Ardea sumatrana''
*Purple heron, ''Ardea purpurea''
*Great egret, ''Ardea alba''
*Intermediate egret, ''Ardea intermedia''
*White-faced heron, ''Egretta novaehollandiae'' (A)
*Chinese egret, ''Egretta eulophotes''
*Little egret, ''Egretta garzetta''
*Pacific reef-heron, ''Egretta sacra''
*Pied heron, ''Egretta picata'' (A)
*Cattle egret, ''Bubulcus ibis''
*Indian pond-heron, ''Ardeola grayii'' (A)
*Chinese pond-heron, ''Ardeola bacchus''
*Striated heron, ''Butorides striata''
*Black-crowned night-heron, ''Nycticorax nycticorax''
*White-eared night-heron, ''Gorsachius magnificus''
*Japanese night-heron, ''Gorsachius goisagi''
*Malayan night-heron, ''Gorsachius melanolophus''
Ibises and spoonbills
Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Threskiornithidae
Threskiornithidae is a family of large terrestrial and wading birds which includes the ibises and spoonbills. They have long, broad wings with 11 primary and about 20 secondary feathers. They are strong fliers and despite their size and weight, very capable soarers.
*Glossy ibis, ''Plegadis falcinellus''
*Black-headed ibis, ''Threskiornis melanocephalus''
*White-shouldered ibis, ''Pseudibis davisoni'' (Ex?)
*Crested ibis, ''Nipponia nippon''
*Eurasian spoonbill, ''Platalea leucorodia''
*Black-faced spoonbill, ''Platalea minor''
Osprey
Order: AccipitriformesFamily: Pandionidae
The family Pandionidae contains only one species, the osprey. The osprey is a medium-large bird of prey, raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution.
*Osprey, ''Pandion haliaetus''
Hawks, eagles, and kites
Order: AccipitriformesFamily: Accipitridae
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey, which includes hawks, eagles, Kite (bird), kites, Harrier (bird), harriers and Old World vultures. These birds have powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons and keen eyesight.
*Black-winged kite, ''Elanus caeruleus''
*Bearded vulture, ''Gypaetus barbatus''
*Egyptian vulture, ''Neophron percnopterus'' (A)
*Oriental honey-buzzard, ''Pernis ptilorhynchus''
*Jerdon's baza, ''Aviceda jerdoni''
*Black baza, ''Aviceda leuphotes''
*Red-headed vulture, ''Sarcogyps calvus''
*Cinereous vulture, ''Aegypius monachus''
*White-rumped vulture, ''Gyps bengalensis'' (Ex)
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*Himalayan griffon, ''Gyps himalayensis''
*Eurasian griffon, ''Gyps fulvus'' (A)
*Crested serpent-eagle, ''Spilornis cheela''
*Short-toed snake-eagle, ''Circaetus gallicus''
*Mountain hawk-eagle, ''Nisaetus nipalensis''
*Rufous-bellied eagle, ''Lophotriorchis kienerii''
*Black eagle, ''Ictinaetus malaiensis''
*Greater spotted eagle, ''Clanga clanga''
*Booted eagle, ''Hieraaetus pennatus''
*Steppe eagle, ''Aquila nipalensis''
*Eastern imperial eagle, Imperial eagle, ''Aquila heliaca''
*Golden eagle, ''Aquila chrysaetos''
*Bonelli's eagle, ''Aquila fasciata''
*White-eyed buzzard, ''Butastur teesa''
*Rufous-winged buzzard, ''Butastur liventer''
*Gray-faced buzzard, ''Butastur indicus''
*Eurasian marsh harrier, ''Circus aeruginosus''
*Eastern marsh harrier, ''Circus spilonotus''
*Hen harrier, ''Circus cyaneus''
*Pallid harrier, ''Circus macrourus''
*Pied harrier, ''Circus melanoleucos''
*Montagu's harrier, ''Circus pygargus''
*Crested goshawk, ''Accipiter trivirgatus''
*Shikra, ''Accipiter badius''
*Chinese sparrowhawk, ''Accipiter soloensis''
*Japanese sparrowhawk, ''Accipiter gularis''
*Besra, ''Accipiter virgatus''
*Eurasian sparrowhawk, ''Accipiter nisus''
*Northern goshawk, ''Accipiter gentilis''
*Black kite, ''Milvus migrans''
*Brahminy kite, ''Haliastur indus''
*White-tailed eagle, ''Haliaeetus albicilla''
*Pallas's fish eagle, ''Haliaeetus leucoryphus''
*Steller's sea eagle, ''Haliaeetus pelagicus'' (A)
*White-bellied sea eagle, ''Haliaeetus leucogaster''
*Lesser fish eagle, ''Ichthyophaga humilis'' (A)
*Rough-legged hawk, ''Buteo lagopus''
*Common buzzard, ''Buteo buteo''
*Himalayan buzzard, ''Buteo burmanicus''
*Eastern buzzard, ''Buteo japonicus''
*Long-legged buzzard, ''Buteo rufinus''
*Upland buzzard, ''Buteo hemilasius''
Barn-owls
Order: StrigiformesFamily: Tytonidae
Barn owls are medium to large owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long strong legs with powerful talons.
*Australasian grass-owl, ''Tyto longimembris''
*Barn owl, ''Tyto alba''
*Oriental bay-owl, ''Phodilus badius''
Owls
Order: StrigiformesFamily: Strigidae
The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk.
*Mountain scops-owl, ''Otus spilocephalus''
*Collared scops-owl, ''Otus lettia''
*Japanese scops-owl, ''Otus semitorques''
*Eurasian scops-owl, ''Otus scops''
*Pallid scops-owl, ''Otus brucei''
*Oriental scops-owl, ''Otus sunia''
*Eurasian eagle-owl, ''Bubo bubo''
*Spot-bellied eagle-owl, ''Bubo nipalensis''
*Dusky eagle-owl, ''Bubo coromandus'' (A)
*Snowy owl, ''Bubo scandiacus''
*Blakiston's fish-owl, ''Ketupa blakistoni''
*Brown fish-owl, ''Ketupa zeylonensis''
*Tawny fish-owl, ''Ketupa flavipes''
*Northern hawk owl, ''Surnia ulula''
*Eurasian pygmy-owl, ''Glaucidium passerinum''
*Asian barred owlet, ''Glaucidium cuculoides''
*Collared owlet, ''Taenioptynx brodiei''
*Spotted owlet, ''Athene brama''
*Little owl, ''Athene noctua''
*Brown wood-owl, ''Strix leptogrammica''
*Tawny owl, ''Strix aluco''
*Himalayan owl, ''Strix nivicolum''
*Ural owl, ''Strix uralensis''
*Great gray owl, ''Strix nebulosa''
*Long-eared owl, ''Asio otus''
*Short-eared owl, ''Asio flammeus''
*Boreal owl, ''Aegolius funereus''
*Brown boobook, ''Ninox scutulata''
*Northern boobook, ''Ninox japonica''
Trogons
Order: TrogoniformesFamily: Trogonidae
The family Trogonidae includes trogons and quetzals. Found in tropical woodlands worldwide, they feed on insects and fruit, and their broad bills and weak legs reflect their diet and arboreal habits. Although their flight is fast, they are reluctant to fly any distance. Trogons have soft, often colorful, feathers with distinctive male and female plumage.
*Red-headed trogon, ''Harpactes erythrocephalus''
*Orange-breasted trogon, ''Harpactes oreskios''
*Ward's trogon, ''Harpactes wardi''
Hoopoes
Order: BucerotiformesFamily: Upupidae
Hoopoes have black, white and orangey-pink coloring with a long crest on their head, the plumage of which sweeps backward at rest but can be flexed to an erect position.
*Eurasian hoopoe, ''Upupa epops''
Hornbills
Order: BucerotiformesFamily: Bucerotidae
Hornbills are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly colored.
*Great hornbill, ''Buceros bicornis''
*Austen's brown hornbill, Brown hornbill, ''Anorrhinus austeni''
*Oriental pied-hornbill, ''Anthracoceros albirostris''
*Rufous-necked hornbill, ''Aceros nipalensis''
*Wreathed hornbill, ''Rhyticeros undulatus''
Kingfishers
Order: CoraciiformesFamily: Alcedinidae
Kingfishers are medium-sized birds with large heads, long, pointed bills, short legs and stubby tails.
*Blyth's kingfisher, ''Alcedo hercules''
*Common kingfisher, ''Alcedo atthis''
*Blue-eared kingfisher, ''Alcedo meninting''
*Black-backed dwarf-kingfisher, ''Ceyx erithacus''
*Stork-billed kingfisher, ''Pelargopsis capensis''
*Ruddy kingfisher, ''Halcyon coromanda''
*White-throated kingfisher, ''Halcyon smyrnensis''
*Black-capped kingfisher, ''Halcyon pileata''
*Collared kingfisher, ''Todirhamphus chloris''
*Crested kingfisher, ''Megaceryle lugubris''
*Pied kingfisher, ''Ceryle rudis''
Bee-eaters
Order: CoraciiformesFamily: Meropidae
The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. Most species are found in Africa but others occur in southern Europe, Madagascar, Australia and New Guinea. They are characterized by richly colored plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers. All are colorful and have long downturned bills and pointed wings, which give them a swallow-like appearance when seen from afar.
*Blue-bearded bee-eater, ''Nyctyornis athertoni''
*Asian green bee-eater, ''Merops orientalis''
*Blue-throated bee-eater, ''Merops viridis''
*Blue-cheeked bee-eater, ''Merops persicus'' (A)
*Blue-tailed bee-eater, ''Merops philippinus''
*European bee-eater, ''Merops apiaster''
*Chestnut-headed bee-eater, ''Merops leschenaulti''
Rollers
Order: CoraciiformesFamily: Coraciidae
Rollers resemble crows in size and build, but are more closely related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters. They share the colorful appearance of those groups with blues and browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but the outer toe is not.
*European roller, ''Coracias garrulus''
*Indian roller, ''Coracias benghalensis'' (A)
*Indochinese roller, ''Coracias affinis''
*Dollarbird, ''Eurystomus orientalis''
Asian barbets
Order: PiciformesFamily: Megalaimidae
The Asian barbets are plump birds, with short necks and large heads. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. Most species are brightly colored.
*Coppersmith barbet, ''Psilopogon haemacephalus''
*Blue-eared barbet, ''Psilopogon duvaucelii''
*Great barbet, ''Psilopogon virens''
*Green-eared barbet, ''Psilopogon faiostrictus''
*Lineated barbet, ''Psilopogon lineatus''
*Golden-throated barbet, ''Psilopogon franklinii''
*Chinese barbet, ''Psilopogon faber'' (E)
*Blue-throated barbet, ''Psilopogon asiaticus''
Honeyguides
Order: PiciformesFamily: Indicatoridae
Honeyguides are among the few birds that feed on wax. They are named for the greater honeyguide which leads traditional honey-hunters to bees' nests and, after the hunters have harvested the honey, feeds on the remaining contents of the hive.
*Yellow-rumped honeyguide, ''Indicator xanthonotus''
Woodpeckers
Order: PiciformesFamily: Picidae
Woodpeckers are small to medium-sized birds with chisel-like beaks, short legs, stiff tails and long tongues used for capturing insects. Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks.
*Eurasian wryneck, ''Jynx torquilla''
*Speckled piculet, ''Picumnus innominatus''
*White-browed piculet, ''Sasia ochracea''
*Eurasian three-toed woodpecker, ''Picoides tridactylus''
*Gray-capped pygmy woodpecker, ''Yungipicus canicapillus''
*Japanese pygmy woodpecker, ''Yungipicus kizuki''
*Yellow-crowned woodpecker, ''Leiopicus mahrattensis''
*Brown-fronted woodpecker, ''Dendrocoptes auriceps'' (A)
*Rufous-bellied woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos hyperythrus''
*Fulvous-breasted woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos macei'' (A)
*Stripe-breasted woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos atratus''
*White-backed woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos leucotos''
*Darjeeling woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos darjellensis''
*Great spotted woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos major''
*White-winged woodpecker, ''Dendrocopos leucopterus''
*Lesser spotted woodpecker, ''Dryobates minor''
*Crimson-breasted woodpecker, ''Dryobates cathpharius''
*Bay woodpecker, ''Blythipicus pyrrhotis''
*Greater flameback, ''Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus''
*Rufous woodpecker, ''Micropternus brachyurus''
*Pale-headed woodpecker, ''Gecinulus grantia''
*Common flameback, ''Dinopium javanense''
*Lesser yellownape, ''Picus chlorolophus''
*Streak-throated woodpecker, ''Picus xanthopygaeus''
*Scaly-bellied woodpecker, ''Picus squamatus''
*Red-collared woodpecker, ''Picus rabieri'' (A)
*Laced woodpecker, ''Picus vittatus''
*Gray-headed woodpecker, ''Picus canus''
*Greater yellownape, ''Chrysophlegma flavinucha''
*Great slaty woodpecker, ''Mulleripicus pulverulentus''
*White-bellied woodpecker, ''Dryocopus javensis''
*Black woodpecker, ''Dryocopus martius''
Falcons and caracaras
Order: FalconiformesFamily: Falconidae
Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey. They differ from hawks, eagles and kites in that they kill with their beaks instead of their talons.
*Collared falconet, ''Microhierax caerulescens''
*Pied falconet, ''Microhierax melanoleucus''
*Lesser kestrel, ''Falco naumanni''
*Eurasian kestrel, ''Falco tinnunculus''
*Red-footed falcon, ''Falco vespertinus''
*Amur falcon, ''Falco amurensis''
*Merlin (bird), Merlin, ''Falco columbarius''
*Eurasian hobby, ''Falco subbuteo''
*Oriental hobby, ''Falco severus''
*Saker falcon, ''Falco cherrug''
*Gyrfalcon, ''Falco rusticolus'' (A)
*Peregrine falcon, ''Falco peregrinus''
**Barbary falcon, ''Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides''
Old world parrots
Order: PsittaciformesFamily: Psittaculidae
Characteristic features of parrots include a strong curved bill, an upright stance, strong legs, and clawed zygodactyl feet. Many parrots are vividly colored, and some are multi-colored. In size they range from to in length. Old World parrots are found from Africa east across south and southeast Asia and Oceania to Australia and New Zealand.
*Blue-rumped parrot, ''Psittinus cyanurus'' (A)
*Alexandrine parakeet, ''Psittacula eupatria''
*Rose-ringed parakeet, ''Psittacula krameri'' (I)
*Slaty-headed parakeet, ''Psittacula himalayana''
*Gray-headed parakeet, ''Psittacula finschii''
*Plum-headed parakeet, ''Psittacula cyanocephala''
*Blossom-headed parakeet, ''Psittacula roseata''
*Derbyan parakeet, ''Psittacula derbiana''
*Red-breasted parakeet, ''Psittacula alexandri''
*Vernal hanging-parrot, ''Loriculus vernalis''
Asian and Grauer’s broadbills
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Eurylaimidae
The broadbills are small, brightly colored birds, which feed on fruit and also take insects in flycatcher fashion, snapping their broad bills. Their habitat is canopies of wet forests.
*Long-tailed broadbill, ''Psarisomus dalhousiae''
*Silver-breasted broadbill, ''Serilophus lunatus''
Pittas
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Pittidae
Pittas are medium-sized by passerine standards and are stocky, with fairly long, strong legs, short tails and stout bills. Many, but not all, are brightly colored. They spend the majority of their time on wet forest floors, eating snails, insects and similar invertebrates.
*Eared pitta, ''Hydrornis phayrei''
*Rusty-naped pitta, ''Hydrornis oatesi''
*Blue-naped pitta, ''Hydrornis nipalensis''
*Blue-rumped pitta, ''Hydrornis soror''
*Blue pitta, ''Hydrornis cyanea''
*Indian pitta, ''Pitta brachyura''
*Blue-winged pitta, ''Pitta moluccensis''
*Fairy pitta, ''Pitta nympha''
*Hooded pitta, ''Pitta sordida''
Cuckooshrikes
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Campephagidae
The cuckooshrikes are small to medium-sized passerine birds. They are predominantly grayish with white and black, although some species are brightly colored.
*Gray-chinned minivet, ''Pericrocotus solaris''
*Short-billed minivet, ''Pericrocotus brevirostris''
*Long-tailed minivet, ''Pericrocotus ethologus''
*Scarlet minivet, ''Pericrocotus flammeus''
*Ryukyu minivet, ''Pericrocotus tegimae'' (A)
*Ashy minivet, ''Pericrocotus divaricatus''
*Brown-rumped minivet, ''Pericrocotus cantonensis''
*Rosy minivet, ''Pericrocotus roseus''
*Large cuckooshrike, ''Coracina macei''
*Black-winged cuckooshrike, ''Coracina melaschistos''
Vireos, shrike-babblers, and erpornis
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Vireonidae
Most of the members of this family are found in the New World. However, the shrike-babblers and erpornis, which only slightly resemble the "true" vireos and greenlets, are found in South East Asia.
*Black-headed shrike-babbler, ''Pteruthius rufiventer''
*White-browed shrike-babbler, ''Pteruthius aeralatus''
*Green shrike-babbler, ''Pteruthius xanthochlorus''
*Black-eared shrike-babbler, ''Pteruthius melanotis''
*Clicking shrike-babbler, ''Pteruthius intermedius''
*White-bellied erpornis, ''Erpornis zantholeuca''
Old World orioles
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Oriolidae
The Old World orioles are colorful passerine birds. They are not related to the New World orioles.
*Eurasian golden oriole, ''Oriolus oriolus''
*Indian golden oriole, ''Oriolus kundoo''
*Black-naped oriole, ''Oriolus chinensis''
*Slender-billed oriole, ''Oriolus tenuirostris''
*Black-hooded oriole, ''Oriolus xanthornus''
*Maroon oriole, ''Oriolus traillii''
*Silver oriole, ''Oriolus mellianus''
Woodswallows, bellmagpies, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Artamidae
The woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-colored passerine birds. They are smooth, agile flyers with moderately large, semi-triangular wings.
*Ashy woodswallow, ''Artamus fuscus''
Vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Vangidae
The family Vangidae is highly variable, though most members of it resemble true shrikes to some degree.
*Large woodshrike, ''Tephrodornis gularis''
*Common woodshrike, ''Tephrodornis pondicerianus''
*Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike, ''Hemipus picatus''
Ioras
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Aegithinidae
The ioras are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn scrub, but whereas that group tends to be drab in coloration, ioras are sexually dimorphic, with the males being brightly plumaged in yellows and greens.
*Common iora, ''Aegithina tiphia''
*Great iora, ''Aegithina lafresnayei''
Fantails
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Rhipiduridae
The fantails are small insectivorous birds which are specialist aerial feeders.
*White-throated fantail, ''Rhipidura albicollis''
*White-browed fantail, ''Rhipidura aureola''
Drongos
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Dicruridae
The drongos are mostly black or dark gray in color, sometimes with metallic tints. They have long forked tails, and some Asian species have elaborate tail decorations. They have short legs and sit very upright when perched, like a shrike. They flycatch or take prey from the ground.
*Black drongo, ''Dicrurus macrocercus''
*Ashy drongo, ''Dicrurus leucophaeus''
*Crow-billed drongo, ''Dicrurus annectens''
*Bronzed drongo, ''Dicrurus aeneus''
*Lesser racket-tailed drongo, ''Dicrurus remifer''
*Hair-crested drongo, ''Dicrurus hottentottus''
*Greater racket-tailed drongo, ''Dicrurus paradiseus''
Monarch flycatchers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Monarchidae
The monarch flycatchers are small to medium-sized insectivorous passerines which hunt by flycatching.
*Black-naped monarch, ''Hypothymis azurea''
*Japanese paradise-flycatcher, ''Terpsiphone atrocaudata''
*Amur paradise-flycatcher, ''Terpsiphone incei''
*Blyth's paradise-flycatcher, ''Terpsiphone affinis''
*Indian paradise flycatcher, ''Terpsiphone paradisi''
Shrikes
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Laniidae
Shrikes are passerine birds known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns. A typical shrike's beak is hooked, like a bird of prey.
*Tiger shrike, ''Lanius tigrinus''
*Bull-headed shrike, ''Lanius bucephalus''
*Red-backed shrike, ''Lanius collurio''
*Red-tailed shrike, ''Lanius phoenicuroides''
*Isabelline shrike, ''Lanius isabellinus''
*Brown shrike, ''Lanius cristatus''
*Burmese shrike, ''Lanius collurioides''
*Long-tailed shrike, ''Lanius schach''
*Gray-backed shrike, ''Lanius tephronotus''
*Northern shrike, ''Lanius borealis''
*Great gray shrike, ''Lanius excubitor''
*Lesser gray shrike, ''Lanius minor''
*Chinese gray shrike, ''Lanius sphenocercus''
*Giant grey shrike, Giant shrike, ''Lanius giganteus'' (E)
Crows, jays, and magpies
![Cyanopica_cyanus_Hong_Kong_2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Cyanopica_cyanus_Hong_Kong_2.jpg)
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Corvidae
The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcracker (bird), nutcrackers and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence. China has the greatest diversity of corvids of any country.
*Siberian jay, ''Perisoreus infaustus''
*Sichuan jay, ''Perisoreus internigrans'' (E)
*Eurasian jay, ''Garrulus glandarius''
*Azure-winged magpie, ''Cyanopica cyana''
*Yellow-billed blue-magpie, ''Urocissa flavirostris''
*Red-billed blue-magpie, ''Urocissa erythrorhyncha''
*White-winged magpie, ''Urocissa whiteheadi''
*Common green-magpie, ''Cissa chinensis''
*Indochinese green-magpie, ''Cissa hypoleuca''
*Rufous treepie, ''Dendrocitta vagabunda''
*Gray treepie, ''Dendrocitta formosae''
*Collared treepie, ''Dendrocitta frontalis''
*Ratchet-tailed treepie, ''Temnurus temnurus''
*Black-rumped magpie, ''Pica bottanensis''
*Oriental magpie, ''Pica serica''
*Eurasian magpie, ''Pica pica''
*Mongolian ground-jay, ''Podoces hendersoni''
*Xinjiang ground-jay, ''Podoces biddulphi'' (E)
*Eurasian nutcracker, ''Nucifraga caryocatactes''
*Red-billed chough, ''Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax''
*Yellow-billed chough, ''Pyrrhocorax graculus''
*Eurasian jackdaw, ''Corvus monedula''
*Daurian jackdaw, ''Corvus dauuricus''
*House crow, ''Corvus splendens''
*Rook (bird), Rook, ''Corvus frugilegus''
*Carrion crow, ''Corvus corone''
*Hooded crow, ''Corvus cornix''
*Large-billed crow, ''Corvus macrorhynchos''
*Collared crow, ''Corvus torquatus''
*Common raven, ''Corvus corax''
Fairy flycatchers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Stenostiridae
Most of the species of this small family are found in Africa, though a few inhabit tropical Asia. They are not closely related to other birds called "flycatchers".
*Yellow-bellied fairy-fantail, ''Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus''
*Gray-headed canary-flycatcher, ''Culicicapa ceylonensis''
Tits, chickadees and titmice
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Paridae
The Paridae are mainly small stocky woodland species with short stout bills. Some have crests. They are adaptable birds, with a mixed diet including seeds and insects. China has the greatest diversity of tits of any country.
*Fire-capped tit, ''Cephalopyrus flammiceps''
*Yellow-browed tit, ''Sylviparus modestus''
*Sultan tit, ''Melanochlora sultanea''
*Coal tit, ''Periparus ater''
*Rufous-naped tit, ''Periparus rufonuchalis''
*Rufous-vented tit, ''Periparus rubidiventris''
*Yellow-bellied tit, ''Periparus venustulus'' (E)
*Gray-crested tit, ''Lophophanes dichrous''
*Varied tit, ''Sittiparus varius''
*White-browed tit, ''Poecile superciliosus'' (E)
*Pere David's tit, ''Poecile davidi'' (E)
*Marsh tit, ''Poecile palustris''
*Black-bibbed tit, ''Poecile hypermelaenus''
*Willow tit, ''Poecile montanus''
*Sichuan tit, ''Poecile weigoldicus''
*Gray-headed chickadee, ''Poecile cinctus'' (A)
*Azure tit, ''Cyanistes cyanus''
*Ground tit, ''Pseudopodoces humilis''
*Green-backed tit, ''Parus monticolus''
*Great tit, ''Parus major''
*Cinereous tit, ''Parus cinereus''
*Japanese tit, ''Parus minor''
*Himalayan black-lored tit, ''Machlolophus xanthogenys'' (A)
*Yellow-cheeked tit, ''Machlolophus spilonotus''
Penduline-tits
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Remizidae
The penduline-tits are a group of small passerine birds related to the true tits. They are insectivores.
*White-crowned penduline-tit, ''Remiz coronatus''
*Chinese penduline-tit, ''Remiz consobrinus''
Larks
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Alaudidae
Larks are small terrestrial birds with often extravagant songs and display flights. Most larks are fairly dull in appearance. Their food is insects and seeds.
*Horsfield’s bushlark, ''Mirafra javanica''
*Horned lark, ''Eremophila alpestris''
*Greater short-toed lark, ''Calandrella brachydactyla''
*Mongolian short-toed lark, ''Calandrella dukhunensis''
*Hume's lark, ''Calandrella acutirostris''
*Bimaculated lark, ''Melanocorypha bimaculata''
*Calandra lark, ''Melanocorypha calandra'' (A)
*Tibetan lark, ''Melanocorypha maxima''
*Black lark, ''Melanocorypha yeltoniensis'' (A)
*Mongolian lark, ''Melanocorypha mongolica''
*Asian short-toed lark, ''Alaudala cheleensis''
*White-winged lark, ''Alauda leucoptera'' (A)
*Eurasian skylark, ''Alauda arvensis''
*Oriental skylark, ''Alauda gulgula''
*Crested lark, ''Galerida cristata''
Bearded reedling
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Panuridae
This species, the only one in its family, is found in reed beds throughout temperate Europe and Asia.
*Bearded reedling, ''Panurus biarmicus''
Cisticolas and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Cisticolidae
The Cisticolidae are warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They are generally very small birds of drab brown or gray appearance found in open country such as grassland or scrub.
*Common tailorbird, ''Orthotomus sutorius''
*Dark-necked tailorbird, ''Orthotomus atrogularis''
*Himalayan prinia, ''Prinia crinigera''
*Striped prinia, ''Prinia striata''
*Black-throated prinia, ''Prinia atrogularis''
*Hill prinia, ''Prinia superciliaris''
*Rufescent prinia, ''Prinia rufescens''
*Gray-breasted prinia, ''Prinia hodgsonii''
*Yellow-bellied prinia, ''Prinia flaviventris''
*Plain prinia, ''Prinia inornata''
*Zitting cisticola, ''Cisticola juncidis''
*Golden-headed cisticola, ''Cisticola exilis''
Reed warblers and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Acrocephalidae
The members of this family are usually rather large for "warblers". Most are rather plain olivaceous brown above with much yellow to beige below. They are usually found in open woodland, reedbeds, or tall grass. The family occurs mostly in southern to western Eurasia and surroundings, but it also ranges far into the Pacific, with some species in Africa.
*Thick-billed warbler, ''Arundinax aedon''
*Booted warbler, ''Iduna caligata''
*Sykes's warbler, ''Iduna rama''
*Eastern olivaceous warbler, ''Iduna pallida''
*Black-browed reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus bistrigiceps''
*Streaked reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus sorghophilus''
*Moustached warbler, ''Acrocephalus melanopogon'' (A)
*Sedge warbler, ''Acrocephalus schoenobaenus''
*Paddyfield warbler, ''Acrocephalus agricola''
*Blunt-winged warbler, ''Acrocephalus concinens''
*Manchurian reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus tangorum''
*Blyth's reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus dumetorum''
*Eurasian reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus scirpaceus''
*Great reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus arundinaceus''
*Oriental reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus orientalis''
*Clamorous reed warbler, ''Acrocephalus stentoreus''
Grassbirds and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Locustellidae
Locustellidae are a family of small insectivorous songbirds found mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region. They are smallish birds with tails that are usually long and pointed, and tend to be drab brownish or buffy all over.
*Gray's grasshopper warbler, ''Helopsaltes fasciolatus''
*Marsh grassbird, ''Helopsaltes pryeri''
*Pallas's grasshopper warbler, ''Helopsaltes certhiola''
*Middendorff's grasshopper warbler, ''Helopsaltes ochotensis''
*Pleske's grasshopper warbler, ''Helopsaltes pleskei''
*Lanceolated warbler, ''Locustella lanceolata''
*Savi's warbler, ''Locustella luscinioides''
*Brown bush warbler, ''Locustella luteoventris''
*Common grasshopper-warbler, ''Locustella naevia''
*Long-billed bush warbler, ''Locustella major''
*Chinese bush warbler, ''Locustella tacsanowskia''
*Baikal bush warbler, ''Locustella davidi''
*Spotted bush warbler, ''Locustella thoracica''
*Russet bush warbler, ''Locustella mandelli''
*Sichuan bush warbler, ''Locustella chengi''
*Striated grassbird, ''Megalurus palustris
Cupwings
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Pnoepygidae
The members of this small family are found in mountainous parts of South and South East Asia.
*Scaly-breasted cupwing, ''Pnoepyga albiventer''
*Immaculate cupwing, ''Pnoepyga immaculata'' (A)
*Pygmy cupwing, ''Pnoepyga pusilla''
Swallows
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Hirundinidae
The family Hirundinidae is adapted to aerial feeding. They have a slender streamlined body, long pointed wings and a short bill with a wide gape. The feet are adapted to perching rather than walking, and the front toes are partially joined at the base.
*Gray-throated martin, ''Riparia chinensis''
*Bank swallow, ''Riparia riparia''
*Pale sand martin, ''Riparia diluta''
*Eurasian crag-martin, ''Ptyonoprogne rupestris''
*Dusky crag-martin, ''Ptyonoprogne concolor'' (A)
*Barn swallow, ''Hirundo rustica''
*Wire-tailed swallow, ''Hirundo smithii''
*Pacific swallow, ''Hirundo tahitica'' (A)
*Red-rumped swallow, ''Cecropis daurica''
*Striated swallow, ''Cecropis striolata''
*Streak-throated swallow, ''Petrochelidon fluvicola'' (A)
*Common house-martin, ''Delichon urbicum''
*Asian house-martin, ''Delichon dasypus''
*Nepal house-martin, ''Delichon nipalensis''
Bulbuls
![Light-vented_Bulbul_(Pycnonotus_sinensis)_(7184485008)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Light-vented_Bulbul_%28Pycnonotus_sinensis%29_%287184485008%29.jpg)
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Pycnonotidae
Bulbuls are medium-sized songbirds. Some are colorful with yellow, red or orange vents, cheeks, throats or supercilia, but most are drab, with uniform olive-brown to black plumage. Some species have distinct crests.
*Black-headed bulbul, ''Brachypodius melanocephalos''
*Black-crested bulbul, ''Rubigula flaviventris''
*Crested finchbill, ''Spizixos canifrons''
*Collared finchbill, ''Spizixos semitorques''
*Striated bulbul, ''Pycnonotus striatus''
*Red-vented bulbul, ''Pycnonotus cafer''
*Red-whiskered bulbul, ''Pycnonotus jocosus''
*Brown-breasted bulbul, ''Pycnonotus xanthorrhous''
*Light-vented bulbul, ''Pycnonotus sinensis''
*Himalayan bulbul, ''Pycnonotus leucogenys'' (A)
*Sooty-headed bulbul, ''Pycnonotus aurigaster''
*Stripe-throated bulbul, ''Pycnonotus finlaysoni''
*Flavescent bulbul, ''Pycnonotus flavescens''
*White-throated bulbul, ''Alophoixus flaveolus''
*Puff-throated bulbul, ''Alophoixus pallidus''
*Gray-eyed bulbul, ''Iole propinqua''
*Black bulbul, ''Hypsipetes leucocephalus''
*Brown-eared bulbul, ''Hypsipetes amaurotis''
*Ashy bulbul, ''Hemixos flavala''
*Chestnut bulbul, ''Hemixos castanonotus''
*Mountain bulbul, ''Ixos mcclellandii''
Leaf warblers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Phylloscopidae
Leaf warblers are a family of small insectivorous birds found mostly in Eurasia and ranging into Wallacea and Africa. The species are of various sizes, often green-plumaged above and yellow below, or more subdued with greyish-green to greyish-brown colors.
*Wood warbler, ''Phylloscopus sibilatrix'' (A)
*Ashy-throated warbler, ''Phylloscopus maculipennis''
*Buff-barred warbler, ''Phylloscopus pulcher''
*Yellow-browed warbler, ''Phylloscopus inornatus''
*Hume's warbler, ''Phylloscopus humei''
*Chinese leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus yunnanensis''
*Pallas's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus proregulus''
*Gansu leaf-warbler, ''Phylloscopus kansuensis'' (E)
*Lemon-rumped warbler, ''Phylloscopus chloronotus''
*Sichuan leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus forresti''
*Radde's warbler, ''Phylloscopus schwarzi''
*Yellow-streaked warbler, ''Phylloscopus armandii''
*Sulphur-bellied warbler, ''Phylloscopus griseolus''
*Tickell's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus affinis''
*Dusky warbler, ''Phylloscopus fuscatus''
*Smoky warbler, ''Phylloscopus fuligiventer''
*Buff-throated warbler, ''Phylloscopus subaffinis''
*Willow warbler, ''Phylloscopus trochilus'' (A)
*Mountain chiffchaff, ''Phylloscopus sindianus''
*Common chiffchaff, ''Phylloscopus collybita''
*Eastern crowned warbler, ''Phylloscopus coronatus''
*White-spectacled warbler, ''Phylloscopus intermedius''
*Gray-cheeked warbler, ''Phylloscopus poliogenys''
*Green-crowned warbler, ''Phylloscopus burkii''
*Gray-crowned warbler, ''Phylloscopus tephrocephalus''
*Whistler's warbler, ''Phylloscopus whistleri''
*Bianchi's warbler, ''Phylloscopus valentini''
*Martens's warbler, ''Phylloscopus omeiensis'' (E)
*Alström's warbler, ''Phylloscopus soror''
*Greenish warbler, ''Phylloscopus trochiloides''
*Two-barred warbler, ''Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus''
*Emei leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus emeiensis'' (E)
*Large-billed leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus magnirostris''
*Pale-legged leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus tenellipes''
*Sakhalin leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus borealoides'' (A)
*Japanese leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus xanthodryas''
*Arctic warbler, ''Phylloscopus borealis''
*Kamchatka leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus examinandus''
*Chestnut-crowned warbler, ''Phylloscopus castaniceps''
*Limestone leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus calciatilis''
*Yellow-vented warbler, ''Phylloscopus cantator''
*Sulphur-breasted warbler, ''Phylloscopus ricketti''
*Blyth's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus reguloides''
*Claudia's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus claudiae''
*Hartert's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus goodsoni'' (E)
*Gray-hooded warbler, ''Phylloscopus xanthoschistos''
*Davison's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus intensior''
*Hainan leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus hainanus'' (E)
*Kloss's leaf warbler, ''Phylloscopus ogilviegranti''
Bush warblers and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Cettiidae, Scotocercidae
The members of this family are found throughout Africa, Asia, and Polynesia. Their taxonomy is in flux, and some authorities place some genera in other families.
[Gill, F. and D. Donsker (Eds). 2019. IOC World Bird List (v 9.2). http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ retrieved 22 June 2019]
*Pale-footed bush warbler, ''Urosphena pallidipes''
*Asian stubtail, ''Urosphena squameiceps''
*Gray-bellied tesia, ''Tesia cyaniventer''
*Slaty-bellied tesia, ''Tesia olivea''
*Chestnut-crowned bush warbler, ''Cettia major''
*Gray-sided bush warbler, ''Cettia brunnifrons''
*Chestnut-headed tesia, ''Cettia castaneocoronata''
*Cetti's warbler, ''Cettia cetti''
*Yellow-bellied warbler, ''Abroscopus superciliaris''
*Rufous-faced warbler, ''Abroscopus albogularis''
*Black-faced warbler, ''Abroscopus schisticeps''
*Mountain tailorbird, ''Phyllergates cuculatus''
*Broad-billed warbler, ''Tickellia hodgsoni''
*Japanese bush warbler, ''Horornis diphone'' (A)
*Manchurian bush warbler, ''Horornis borealis''
*Brownish-flanked bush warbler, ''Horornis fortipes''
*Hume's bush warbler, ''Horornis brunnescens''
*Yellowish-bellied bush warbler, ''Horornis acanthizoides''
*Aberrant bush warbler, ''Horornis flavolivacea''
Long-tailed tits
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Aegithalidae
Long-tailed tits are a group of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. They make woven bag nests in trees. Most eat a mixed diet which includes insects.
*White-browed tit-warbler, ''Leptopoecile sophiae''
*Crested tit-warbler, ''Leptopoecile elegans'' (E)
*Long-tailed tit, ''Aegithalos caudatus''
*Silver-throated tit, ''Aegithalos glaucogularis'' (E)
*Black-throated tit, ''Aegithalos concinnus''
*Black-browed tit, ''Aegithalos iouschistos''
*Sooty tit, ''Aegithalos fuliginosus'' (E)
Sylviid warblers, parrotbills, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Sylviidae
The family Sylviidae is a group of small insectivorous passerine birds. They mainly occur as breeding species, as the common name implies, in Europe, Asia and, to a lesser extent, Africa. Most are of generally undistinguished appearance, but many have distinctive songs.
*Eurasian blackcap, ''Sylvia atricapilla'' (A)
*Barred warbler, ''Curruca nisoria''
*Lesser whitethroat, ''Curruca curruca''
*Asian desert warbler, ''Curruca nana''
*Greater whitethroat, ''Curruca communis''
*Fire-tailed myzornis, ''Myzornis pyrrhoura''
*Rufous-tailed babbler, ''Moupinia poecilotis'' (E)
*Golden-breasted fulvetta, ''Lioparus chrysotis''
*Yellow-eyed babbler, ''Chrysomma sinense''
*Tarim babbler, ''Rhopophilus albosuperciliaris'' (E)
*Beijing babbler, ''Rhopophilus pekinensis''
*Spectacled fulvetta, ''Fulvetta ruficapilla''
*Chinese fulvetta, ''Fulvetta striaticollis'' (E)
*Brown-throated fulvetta, ''Fulvetta ludlowi''
*White-browed fulvetta, ''Fulvetta vinipectus''
*Streak-throated fulvetta, ''Fulvetta manipurensis''
*Gray-hooded fulvetta, ''Fulvetta cinereiceps''
*Reed parrotbill, ''Calamornis heudei''
*Spot-breasted parrotbill, ''Paradoxornis guttaticollis''
*Great parrotbill, ''Conostoma aemodium''
*Brown parrotbill, ''Cholornis unicolor''
*Three-toed parrotbill, ''Cholornis paradoxus'' (E)
*Gray-headed parrotbill, ''Psittiparus gularis''
*White-breasted parrotbill, ''Psittiparus ruficeps''
*Rufous-headed parrotbill, ''Psittiparus bakeri''
*Short-tailed parrotbill, ''Neosuthora davidianus''
*Fulvous parrotbill, ''Suthora fulvifrons''
*Black-throated parrotbill, ''Suthora nipalensis''
*Golden parrotbill, ''Suthora verreauxi''
*Pale-billed parrotbill, ''Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris''
*Spectacled parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora conspicillata'' (E)
*Gray-hooded parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora zappeyi'' (E)
*Brown-winged parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora brunnea''
*Vinous-throated parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora webbiana''
*Ashy-throated parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora alphonsiana''
*Rusty-throated parrotbill, ''Sinosuthora przewalskii'' (E)
White-eyes, yuhinas, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Zosteropidae
The white-eyes are small and mostly undistinguished, their plumage above being generally some dull color like greenish-olive, but some species have a white or bright yellow throat, breast or lower parts, and several have buff flanks. As their name suggests, many species have a white ring around each eye.
*White-collared yuhina, ''Parayuhina diademata''
*Striated yuhina, ''Staphida castaniceps''
*Indochinese yuhina, ''Staphida torqueola''
*Black-chinned yuhina, ''Yuhina nigrimenta''
*Whiskered yuhina, ''Yuhina flavicollis''
*White-naped yuhina, ''Yuhina bakeri''
*Stripe-throated yuhina, ''Yuhina gularis''
*Rufous-vented yuhina, ''Yuhina occipitalis''
*Chestnut-flanked white-eye, ''Zosterops erythropleurus''
*Swinhoe's white-eye, ''Zosterops simplex''
*Warbling white-eye, ''Zosterops japonicus''
*Indian white-eye, ''Zosterops palpebrosus''
Tree-babblers, scimitar-babblers, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Timaliidae
The babblers, or timaliids, are somewhat diverse in size and coloration, but are characterized by soft fluffy plumage.
*Chestnut-capped babbler, ''Timalia pileata''
*Pin-striped tit-babbler, ''Macronus gularis''
*Golden babbler, ''Cyanoderma chrysaeum''
*Black-chinned babbler, ''Cyanoderma pyrrhops'' (A)
*Rufous-capped babbler, ''Cyanoderma ruficeps''
*Buff-chested babbler, ''Cyanoderma ambiguum''
*Bar-winged wren-babbler, ''Spelaeornis troglodytoides''
*Pale-throated wren-babbler, ''Spelaeornis kinneari''
*Gray-bellied wren-babbler, ''Spelaeornis reptatus''
*Coral-billed scimitar-babbler, ''Pomatorhinus ferruginosus''
*Red-billed scimitar-babbler, ''Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps''
*Slender-billed scimitar-babbler, ''Pomatorhinus superciliaris''
*Streak-breasted scimitar-babbler, ''Pomatorhinus ruficollis''
*Large scimitar-babbler, ''Erythrogenys hypoleucos''
*Rusty-cheeked scimitar-babbler, ''Erythrogenys erythrogenys''
*Black-streaked scimitar-babbler, ''Erythrogenys gravivox''
*Gray-sided scimitar-babbler, ''Erythrogenys swinhoei''
*Gray-throated babbler, ''Stachyris nigriceps''
*Nonggang babbler, ''Stachyris nonggangensis'' (E)
*Sikkim wedge-billed babbler, ''Stachyris humei'' (A)
*Cachar wedge-billed babbler, ''Stachyris roberti''
*Spot-necked babbler, ''Stachyris striolata''
Ground babblers and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Pellorneidae
These small to medium-sized songbirds have soft fluffy plumage but are otherwise rather diverse. Members of the genus ''Illadopsis'' are found in forests, but some other genera are birds of scrublands.
*Chinese grassbird, ''Graminicola striatus''
*White-hooded babbler, ''Gampsorhynchus rufulus''
*Collared babbler, ''Gampsorhynchus torquatus''
*Yellow-throated fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus cinereus''
*Rufous-winged fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus castaneceps''
*Gold-fronted fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus variegaticeps'' (E)
*Rufous-throated fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus rufogularis''
*Rusty-capped fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus dubius''
*Dusky fulvetta, ''Schoeniparus brunneus''
*Puff-throated babbler, ''Pellorneum ruficeps''
*Spot-throated babbler, ''Pellorneum albiventre''
*Buff-breasted babbler, ''Pellorneum tickelli''
*Streaked wren-babbler, ''Gypsophila brevicaudatus''
*Annam limestone babbler, ''Gypsophila annamensis''
*Eyebrowed wren-babbler, ''Napothera epilepidota''
*Long-billed wren-babbler, ''Napothera malacoptila''
*Naung Mung scimitar-babbler, ''Napothera naungmungensis'' (A)
Laughingthrushes and allies
![Garrulax_perspicillatus_-_Funny_Black_Face](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Garrulax_perspicillatus_-_Funny_Black_Face.jpg)
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Leiothrichidae
The members of this family are diverse in size and colouration, though those of genus ''Turdoides'' tend to be brown or greyish. The family is found in Africa, India, and southeast Asia.
*Brown-cheeked fulvetta, ''Alcippe poioicephala''
*Nepal fulvetta, ''Alcippe nipalensis''
*David's fulvetta, ''Alcippe davidi''
*Huet's fulvetta, ''Alcippe hueti''
*Yunnan fulvetta, ''Alcippe fratercula''
*Striated laughingthrush, ''Grammatoptila striata''
*Himalayan cutia, ''Cutia nipalensis''
*Scaly laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron subunicolor''
*Blue-winged laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron squamatum''
*Streaked laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron lineatum''
*Bhutan laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron imbricatum''
*Variegated laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron variegatum'' (A)
*Black-faced laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron affine''
*Prince Henry's laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron henrici''
*Elliot's laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron elliotii'' (E)
*Red-tailed laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron milnei''
*Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron erythrocephalum''
*Assam laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron chrysopterum''
*Red-winged laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron formosum''
*Silver-eared laughingthrush, ''Trochalopteron melanostigma''
*Long-tailed sibia, ''Heterophasia picaoides''
*Rufous sibia, ''Heterophasia capistrata''
*Beautiful sibia, ''Heterophasia pulchella''
*Gray sibia, ''Heterophasia gracilis''
*Black-backed sibia, ''Heterophasia melanoleuca''
*Black-headed sibia, ''Heterophasia desgodinsi''
*Hoary-throated barwing, ''Actinodura nipalensis''
*Streak-throated barwing, ''Actinodura waldeni''
*Streaked barwing, ''Actinodura souliei''
*Blue-winged minla, ''Actinodura cyanouroptera''
*Chestnut-tailed minla, ''Actinodura strigula''
*Rusty-fronted barwing, ''Actinodura egertoni''
*Spectacled barwing, ''Actinodura ramsayi''
*Red-billed leiothrix, ''Leiothrix lutea''
*Silver-eared mesia, ''Leiothrix argentauris''
*Red-tailed minla, ''Minla ignotincta''
*Rufous-backed sibia, ''Leioptila annectens''
*Gray-faced liocichla, ''Liocichla omeiensis'' (E)
*Red-faced liocichla, ''Liocichla phoenicea''
*Scarlet-faced liocichla, ''Liocichla ripponi''
*Spot-breasted laughingthrush, ''Garrulax merulinus''
*Chinese hwamei, ''Garrulax canorus''
*Lesser necklaced laughingthrush, ''Garrulax monileger''
*White-crested laughingthrush, ''Garrulax leucolophus''
*White-necked laughingthrush, ''Garrulax strepitans''
*Gray laughingthrush, ''Garrulax maesi''
*Rufous-cheeked laughingthrush, ''Garrulax castanotis''
*Snowy-cheeked laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla sukatschewi'' (E)
*Rufous-chinned laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla rufogularis'' (A)
*Moustached laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla cineracea''
*Spotted laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla ocellata''
*Giant laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla maxima'' (E)
*Biet's laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla bieti'' (E)
*Barred laughingthrush, ''Ianthocincla lunulata'' (E)
*Rufous-vented laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus gularis'' (A)
*Blue-crowned laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus courtoisi'' (E)
*Rufous-necked laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus ruficollis''
*Black-throated laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus chinensis''
*White-browed laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus sannio''
*Masked laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus perspicillatus''
*Greater necklaced laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus pectoralis''
*Pere David's laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus davidi'' (E)
*Chinese babax, ''Pterorhinus lanceolatus''
*Giant babax, ''Pterorhinus waddelli''
*Tibetan babax, ''Pterorhinus koslowi'' (E)
*White-throated laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus albogularis''
*Gray-sided laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus caerulatus''
*Buffy laughingthrush, ''Pterorhinus berthemyi''
Kinglets
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Regulidae
The kinglets, also called crests, are a small group of birds often included in the Old World warblers, but frequently given family status because they also resemble the titmouse, titmice.
*Goldcrest, ''Regulus regulus''
Wallcreeper
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Tichodromidae
The wallcreeper is a small bird, with stunning crimson, gray and black plumage, related to the nuthatch family.
*Wallcreeper, ''Tichodroma muraria''
Nuthatches
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Sittidae
Nuthatches are small woodland birds. They have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first, unlike other birds which can only go upwards. Nuthatches have big heads, short tails and powerful bills and feet. China has the greatest diversity of nuthatches of any country.
*Chestnut-bellied nuthatch, ''Sitta castanea''
*Burmese nuthatch, ''Sitta neglecta''
*Eurasian nuthatch, ''Sitta europaea''
*Chestnut-vented nuthatch, ''Sitta nagaensis''
*White-tailed nuthatch, ''Sitta himalayensis''
*Przevalski's nuthatch, ''Sitta przewalskii'' (E)
*Snowy-browed nuthatch, ''Sitta villosa''
*Yunnan nuthatch, ''Sitta yunnanensis'' (E)
*Velvet-fronted nuthatch, ''Sitta frontalis''
*Yellow-billed nuthatch, ''Sitta solangiae''
*Giant nuthatch, ''Sitta magna''
*Beautiful nuthatch, ''Sitta formosa''
Treecreepers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Certhiidae
Treecreepers are small woodland birds, brown above and white below. They have thin pointed down-curved bills, which they use to extricate insects from bark. They have stiff tail feathers, like woodpeckers, which they use to support themselves on vertical trees.
*Eurasian treecreeper, ''Certhia familiaris''
*Hodgson's treecreeper, ''Certhia hodgsoni''
*Sichuan treecreeper, ''Certhia tianquanensis'' (E)
*Bar-tailed treecreeper, ''Certhia himalayana''
*Rusty-flanked treecreeper, ''Certhia nipalensis''
*Sikkim treecreeper, ''Certhia discolor''
*Hume's treecreeper, ''Certhia manipurensis''
Wrens
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Troglodytidae
The wrens are mainly small and inconspicuous except for their loud songs. These birds have short wings and thin down-turned bills. Several species often hold their tails upright. All are insectivorous.
*Eurasian wren, ''Troglodytes troglodytes''
Spotted elachura
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Elachuridae
This species, the only one in its family, inhabits forest undergrowth throughout South East Asia.
*Spotted elachura, ''Elachura formosa''
Dippers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Cinclidae
Dippers are a group of perching birds whose habitat includes aquatic environments in the Americas, Europe and Asia. They are named for their bobbing or dipping movements.
*White-throated dipper, ''Cinclus cinclus''
*Brown dipper, ''Cinclus pallasii''
Starlings
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Sturnidae
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds. Their flight is strong and direct and they are very gregarious. Their preferred habitat is fairly open country. They eat insects and fruit. Plumage is typically dark with a metallic sheen.
*Asian glossy starling, ''Aplonis panayensis'' (A)
*Golden-crested myna, ''Ampeliceps coronatus''
*Common hill myna, ''Gracula religiosa''
*European starling, ''Sturnus vulgaris''
*Rosy starling, ''Pastor roseus''
*Daurian starling, ''Agropsar sturninus''
*Chestnut-cheeked starling, ''Agropsar philippensis''
*Black-collared starling, ''Gracupica nigricollis''
*Indian pied starling, ''Gracupica contra''
*Siamese pied starling, ''Gracupica floweri''
*White-shouldered starling, ''Sturnia sinensis''
*Brahminy starling, ''Sturnia pagodarum'' (A)
*Chestnut-tailed starling, ''Sturnia malabarica''
*Red-billed starling, ''Spodiopsar sericeus''
*White-cheeked starling, ''Spodiopsar cineraceus''
*Common myna, ''Acridotheres tristis''
*Bank myna, ''Acridotheres ginginianus'' (A)
*Burmese myna, ''Acridotheres burmannicus''
*Javan myna, ''Acridotheres javanicus'' (I)
*Collared myna, ''Acridotheres albocinctus''
*Great myna, ''Acridotheres grandis''
*Crested myna, ''Acridotheres cristatellus''
*Spot-winged starling, ''Saroglossa spilopterus'' (A)
Thrushes and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Turdidae
The Thrush (bird), thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.
*Grandala, ''Grandala coelicolor''
*Long-tailed thrush, ''Zoothera dixoni''
*Alpine thrush, ''Zoothera mollissima''
*Himalayan thrush, ''Zoothera salimalii''
*Sichuan thrush, ''Zoothera griseiceps''
*Dark-sided thrush, ''Zoothera marginata''
*Long-billed thrush, ''Zoothera monticola'' (A)
*White's thrush, ''Zoothera aurea''
*Scaly thrush, ''Zoothera dauma''
*Purple cochoa, ''Cochoa purpurea''
*Green cochoa, ''Cochoa viridis''
*Siberian thrush, ''Geokichla sibirica''
*Orange-headed thrush, ''Geokichla citrina''
*Chinese thrush, ''Otocichla mupinensis''
*Mistle thrush, ''Turdus viscivorus''
*Song thrush, ''Turdus philomelos''
*Redwing, ''Turdus iliacus''
*Eurasian blackbird, ''Turdus merula''
*Chinese blackbird, ''Turdus mandarinus''
*Gray-winged blackbird, ''Turdus boulboul''
*Japanese thrush, ''Turdus cardis''
*Gray-backed thrush, ''Turdus hortulorum''
*Tickell's thrush, ''Turdus unicolor''
*Black-breasted thrush, ''Turdus dissimilis''
*Gray-sided thrush, ''Turdus feae''
*Eyebrowed thrush, ''Turdus obscurus''
*Brown-headed thrush, ''Turdus chrysolaus''
*Pale thrush, ''Turdus pallidus''
*White-backed thrush, ''Turdus kessleri''
*Tibetan blackbird, ''Turdus maximus''
*Fieldfare, ''Turdus pilaris''
*White-collared blackbird, ''Turdus albocinctus''
*Chestnut thrush, ''Turdus rubrocanus''
*Black-throated thrush, ''Turdus atrogularis''
*Red-throated thrush, ''Turdus ruficollis''
*Dusky thrush, ''Turdus eunomus''
*Naumann's thrush, ''Turdus naumanni''
Old World flycatchers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Muscicapidae
Old World flycatchers are a large group of small passerine birds native to the Old World. They are mainly small arboreal insectivores. The appearance of these birds is highly varied, but they mostly have weak songs and harsh calls.
*Gray-streaked flycatcher, ''Muscicapa griseisticta''
*Dark-sided flycatcher, ''Muscicapa sibirica''
*Ferruginous flycatcher, ''Muscicapa ferruginea''
*Asian brown flycatcher, ''Muscicapa dauurica''
*Brown-breasted flycatcher, ''Muscicapa muttui''
*Spotted flycatcher, ''Muscicapa striata''
*Rufous-tailed scrub-robin, ''Cercotrichas galactotes''
*Oriental magpie-robin, ''Copsychus saularis''
*White-rumped shama, ''Copsychus malabaricus''
*White-gorgeted flycatcher, ''Anthipes monileger''
*White-tailed flycatcher, ''Cyornis concretus''
*Hainan blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis hainanus''
*Pale-chinned blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis poliogenys''
*Pale blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis unicolor''
*Blue-throated flycatcher, ''Cyornis rubeculoides''
*Chinese blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis glaucicomans''
*Hill blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis whitei''
*Tickell's blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis tickelliae''
*Brown-chested jungle-flycatcher, ''Cyornis brunneatus''
*Large niltava, ''Niltava grandis''
*Small niltava, ''Niltava macgrigoriae''
*Fujian niltava, ''Niltava davidi''
*Rufous-bellied niltava, ''Niltava sundara''
*Chinese vivid niltava, ''Niltava oatesi'' (E)
*Blue-and-white flycatcher, ''Cyanoptila cyanomelana''
*Zappey's flycatcher, ''Cyanoptila cumatilis''
*Verditer flycatcher, ''Eumyias thalassina''
*European robin, ''Erithacus rubecula''
*Rusty-bellied shortwing, ''Brachypteryx hyperythra''
*Gould's shortwing, ''Brachypteryx stellata''
*Lesser shortwing, ''Brachypteryx leucophrys''
*Himalayan shortwing, ''Brachypteryx cruralis''
*Chinese shortwing, ''Brachypteryx sinensis'' (E)
*Rufous-tailed robin, ''Larvivora sibilans''
*Rufous-headed robin, ''Larvivora ruficeps''
*Japanese robin, ''Larvivora akahige''
*Ryukyu robin, ''Larvivora komadori''
*Indian blue robin, ''Larvivora brunnea''
*Siberian blue robin, ''Larvivora cyane''
*Common nightingale, ''Luscinia megarhynchos''
*White-bellied redstart, ''Luscinia phoenicuroides''
*Bluethroat, ''Luscinia svecica''
*Blue whistling-thrush, ''Myophonus caeruleus''
*Little forktail, ''Enicurus scouleri''
*White-crowned forktail, ''Enicurus leschenaulti''
*Spotted forktail, ''Enicurus maculatus''
*Black-backed forktail, ''Enicurus immaculatus''
*Slaty-backed forktail, ''Enicurus schistaceus''
*Firethroat, ''Calliope pectardens''
*Blackthroat, ''Calliope obscura''
*Siberian rubythroat, ''Calliope calliope''
*Himalayan rubythroat, ''Calliope pectoralis''
*Chinese rubythroat, ''Calliope tschebaiewi''
*White-tailed robin, ''Myiomela leucura''
*Blue-fronted robin, ''Cinclidium frontale''
*Red-flanked bluetail, ''Tarsiger cyanurus''
*Himalayan bluetail, ''Tarsiger rufilatus''
*Rufous-breasted bush-robin, ''Tarsiger hyperythrus''
*White-browed bush-robin, ''Tarsiger indicus''
*Golden bush-robin, ''Tarsiger chrysaeus''
*Yellow-rumped flycatcher, ''Ficedula zanthopygia''
*Green-backed flycatcher, ''Ficedula elisae''
*Narcissus flycatcher, ''Ficedula narcissina''
*Ryukyu flycatcher, ''Ficedula owstoni''
*Mugimaki flycatcher, ''Ficedula mugimaki''
*Slaty-backed flycatcher, ''Ficedula hodgsonii''
*Slaty-blue flycatcher, ''Ficedula tricolor''
*Snowy-browed flycatcher, ''Ficedula hyperythra''
*Pygmy flycatcher, ''Ficedula hodgsoni''
*Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher, ''Ficedula strophiata''
*Sapphire flycatcher, ''Ficedula sapphira''
*Little pied flycatcher, ''Ficedula westermanni''
*Ultramarine flycatcher, ''Ficedula superciliaris''
*Taiga flycatcher, ''Ficedula albicilla''
*Red-breasted flycatcher, ''Ficedula parva'' (A)
*European pied flycatcher, ''Ficedula hypoleuca'' (A)
*Blue-fronted redstart, ''Phoenicurus frontalis''
*Plumbeous redstart, ''Phoenicurus fuliginosus''
*Rufous-backed redstart, ''Phoenicurus erythronota''
*White-capped redstart, ''Phoenicurus leucocephalus''
*Ala Shan redstart, ''Phoenicurus alaschanicus'' (E)
*Blue-capped redstart, ''Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus''
*Common redstart, ''Phoenicurus phoenicurus''
*Hodgson's redstart, ''Phoenicurus hodgsoni''
*White-throated redstart, ''Phoenicurus schisticeps''
*White-winged redstart, ''Phoenicurus erythrogaster''
*Black redstart, ''Phoenicurus ochruros''
*Daurian redstart, ''Phoenicurus auroreus''
*Chestnut-bellied rock-thrush, ''Monticola rufiventris''
*White-throated rock-thrush, ''Monticola gularis''
*Rufous-tailed rock-thrush, ''Monticola saxatilis''
*Blue rock-thrush, ''Monticola solitarius''
*White-throated bushchat, ''Saxicola insignis''
*Siberian stonechat, ''Saxicola maurus''
*Amur stonechat, ''Saxicola stejnegeri''
*Pied bushchat, ''Saxicola caprata''
*Jerdon's bushchat, ''Saxicola jerdoni''
*Gray bushchat, ''Saxicola ferreus''
*Northern wheatear, ''Oenanthe oenanthe''
*Isabelline wheatear, ''Oenanthe isabellina''
*Desert wheatear, ''Oenanthe deserti''
*Eastern black-eared wheatear, ''Oenanthe melanoleuca'' (A)
*Pied wheatear, ''Oenanthe pleschanka''
*Variable wheatear, ''Oenanthe picata''
Waxwings
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Bombycillidae
The waxwings are a group of birds with soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and cedar waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax and give the group its name. These are arboreal birds of northern forests. They live on insects in summer and berries in winter.
*Bohemian waxwing, ''Bombycilla garrulus''
*Japanese waxwing, ''Bombycilla japonica''
Flowerpeckers
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Dicaeidae
The flowerpeckers are very small, stout, often brightly colored birds, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues.
*Thick-billed flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum agile''
*Yellow-vented flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum chrysorrheum''
*Yellow-bellied flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum melanozanthum''
*Plain flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum minullum''
*Fire-breasted flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum ignipectus''
*Scarlet-backed flowerpecker, ''Dicaeum cruentatum''
Sunbirds and spiderhunters
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Nectariniidae
The sunbirds and spiderhunters are very small passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed.
*Ruby-cheeked sunbird, ''Chalcoparia singalensis''
*Brown-throated sunbird, ''Anthreptes malacensis'' (A)
*Purple sunbird, ''Cinnyris asiaticus''
*Olive-backed sunbird, ''Cinnyris jugularis''
*Fire-tailed sunbird, ''Aethopyga ignicauda''
*Black-throated sunbird, ''Aethopyga saturata''
*Mrs. Gould's sunbird, ''Aethopyga gouldiae''
*Green-tailed sunbird, ''Aethopyga nipalensis''
*Crimson sunbird, ''Aethopyga siparaja''
*Fork-tailed sunbird, ''Aethopyga christinae''
*Purple-naped sunbird, ''Hypogramma hypogrammicum''
*Little spiderhunter, ''Arachnothera longirostra''
*Streaked spiderhunter, ''Arachnothera magna''
Fairy-bluebirds
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Irenidae
The fairy-bluebirds are bulbul-like birds of open forest or thorn scrub. The males are dark-blue and the females a duller green.
*Asian fairy-bluebird, ''Irena puella''
Leafbirds
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Chloropseidae
The leafbirds are small, bulbul-like birds. The males are brightly plumaged, usually in greens and yellows.
*Blue-winged leafbird, ''Chloropsis cochinchinensis''
*Golden-fronted leafbird, ''Chloropsis aurifrons''
*Orange-bellied leafbird, ''Chloropsis hardwickii''
Pinktails
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Urocynchramidae
Przevalski's pinktail is an unusual passerine bird endemic to the mountains of central-west China.
*Przevalski's pinktail, ''Urocynchramus pylzowi'' (E)
Weavers and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Ploceidae
The weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. They are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills. The males of many species are brightly colored, usually in red or yellow and black, some species show variation in color only in the breeding season.
*Streaked weaver, ''Ploceus manyar''
*Baya weaver, ''Ploceus philippinus''
Waxbills and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Estrildidae
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They are gregarious and often colonial seed eaters with short thick but pointed bills. They are all similar in structure and habits, but have a wide variation in plumage colors and patterns.
*Java sparrow, ''Padda oryzivora'' (I)
*Scaly-breasted munia, ''Lonchura punctulata''
*White-rumped munia, ''Lonchura striata''
*Chestnut munia, ''Lonchura atricapilla''
*Pin-tailed parrotfinch, ''Erythrura prasina'' (A)
*Red avadavat, ''Amandava amandava''
Accentors
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Prunellidae
The accentors are in the only bird family, Prunellidae, which is completely endemic to the Palearctic. They are small, fairly drab species superficially similar to Old World sparrow, sparrows.
*Alpine accentor, ''Prunella collaris''
*Altai accentor, ''Prunella himalayana''
*Robin accentor, ''Prunella rubeculoides''
*Rufous-breasted accentor, ''Prunella strophiata''
*Siberian accentor, ''Prunella montanella''
*Brown accentor, ''Prunella fulvescens''
*Black-throated accentor, ''Prunella atrogularis''
*Mongolian accentor, ''Prunella koslowi''
*Maroon-backed accentor, ''Prunella immaculata''
Old World sparrows
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Passeridae
Old World sparrows are small passerine birds. In general, sparrows tend to be small, plump, brown or gray birds with short tails and short powerful beaks. Sparrows are seed eaters, but they also consume small insects.
*Saxaul sparrow, ''Passer ammodendri''
*House sparrow, ''Passer domesticus''
*Spanish sparrow, ''Passer hispaniolensis''
*Russet sparrow, ''Passer cinnamomeus''
*Eurasian tree sparrow, ''Passer montanus''
*Rock sparrow, ''Petronia petronia''
*White-winged snowfinch, ''Montifringilla nivalis''
*Tibetan snowfinch, ''Montifringilla henrici''
*Black-winged snowfinch, ''Montifringilla adamsi''
*White-rumped snowfinch, ''Montifringilla taczanowskii''
*Pere David's snowfinch, ''Montifringilla davidiana''
*Rufous-necked snowfinch, ''Montifringilla ruficollis''
*Blanford's snowfinch, ''Montifringilla blanfordi''
Wagtails and pipits
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Motacillidae
Motacillidae is a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. They include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. They are slender, ground feeding insectivores of open country.
*Forest wagtail, ''Dendronanthus indicus''
*Gray wagtail, ''Motacilla cinerea''
*Western yellow wagtail, ''Motacilla flava''
*Eastern yellow wagtail, ''Motacilla tschutschensis''
*Citrine wagtail, ''Motacilla citreola''
*White-browed wagtail, ''Motacilla maderaspatensis'' (A)
*Japanese wagtail, ''Motacilla grandis'' (A)
*White wagtail, ''Motacilla alba''
*Richard's pipit, ''Anthus richardi''
*Paddyfield pipit, ''Anthus rufulus''
*Blyth's pipit, ''Anthus godlewskii''
*Tawny pipit, ''Anthus campestris''
*Upland pipit, ''Anthus sylvanus''
*Meadow pipit, ''Anthus pratensis''
*Rosy pipit, ''Anthus roseatus''
*Tree pipit, ''Anthus trivialis''
*Olive-backed pipit, ''Anthus hodgsoni''
*Pechora pipit, ''Anthus gustavi''
*Red-throated pipit, ''Anthus cervinus''
*Water pipit, ''Anthus spinoletta''
*American pipit, ''Anthus rubescens''
Finches, euphonias, and allies
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Fringillidae
Finches are seed-eating passerine birds, that are small to moderately large and have a strong beak, usually conical and in some species very large. All have twelve tail feathers and nine primaries. These birds have a bouncing flight with alternating bouts of flapping and gliding on closed wings, and most sing well. China has the greatest diversity of finches of any country.
*Common chaffinch, ''Fringilla coelebs''
*Brambling, ''Fringilla montifringilla''
*Collared grosbeak, ''Mycerobas affinis''
*Spot-winged grosbeak, ''Mycerobas melanozanthos''
*White-winged grosbeak, ''Mycerobas carnipes''
*Hawfinch, ''Coccothraustes coccothraustes''
*Yellow-billed grosbeak, ''Eophona migratoria''
*Japanese grosbeak, ''Eophona personata''
*Common rosefinch, ''Carpodacus erythrinus''
*Scarlet finch, ''Carpodacus sipahi''
*Red-mantled rosefinch, ''Carpodacus rhodochlamys''
*Blyth's rosefinch, ''Carpodacus grandis''
*Himalayan beautiful rosefinch, ''Carpodacus pulcherrimus''
*Chinese beautiful rosefinch, ''Carpodacus davidianus''
*Pink-rumped rosefinch, ''Carpodacus waltoni''
*Dark-rumped rosefinch, ''Carpodacus edwardsii''
*Pink-browed rosefinch, ''Carpodacus rhodochrous''
*Spot-winged rosefinch, ''Carpodacus rhodopeplus''
*Sharpe's rosefinch, ''Carpodacus verreauxii''
*Vinaceous rosefinch, ''Carpodacus vinaceus''
*Pale rosefinch, ''Carpodacus stoliczkae''
*Tibetan rosefinch, ''Carpodacus roborowskii'' (E)
*Sillem's rosefinch, ''Carpodacus sillemi'' (E)
*Streaked rosefinch, ''Carpodacus rubicilloides''
*Great rosefinch, ''Carpodacus rubicilla''
*Long-tailed rosefinch, ''Carpodacus sibiricus''
*Red-fronted rosefinch, ''Carpodacus puniceus''
*Crimson-browed finch, ''Carpodacus subhimachalus''
*Pallas's rosefinch, ''Carpodacus roseus''
*Three-banded rosefinch, ''Carpodacus trifasciatus''
*Himalayan white-browed rosefinch, ''Carpodacus thura''
*Chinese white-browed rosefinch, ''Carpodacus dubius''
*Pine grosbeak, ''Pinicola enucleator''
*Brown bullfinch, ''Pyrrhula nipalensis''
*Red-headed bullfinch, ''Pyrrhula erythrocephala''
*Gray-headed bullfinch, ''Pyrrhula erythaca''
*Eurasian bullfinch, ''Pyrrhula pyrrhula''
*Crimson-winged finch, ''Rhodopechys sanguineus''
*Mongolian finch, ''Bucanetes mongolicus''
*Blanford's rosefinch, ''Agraphospiza rubescens''
*Gold-naped finch, ''Pyrrhoplectes epauletta''
*Dark-breasted rosefinch, ''Procarduelis nipalensis''
*Plain mountain finch, ''Leucosticte nemoricola''
*Black-headed mountain finch, ''Leucosticte brandti''
*Asian rosy-finch, ''Leucosticte arctoa''
*Desert finch, ''Rhodospiza obsoleta''
*European greenfinch, ''Chloris chloris''
*Oriental greenfinch, ''Chloris sinica''
*Yellow-breasted greenfinch, ''Chloris spinoides''
*Black-headed greenfinch, ''Chloris ambigua''
*Twite, ''Linaria flavirostris''
*Eurasian linnet, ''Linaria cannabina''
*Common redpoll, ''Acanthis flammea''
*Hoary redpoll, ''Acanthis hornemanni''
*Red crossbill, ''Loxia curvirostra''
*White-winged crossbill, ''Loxia leucoptera''
*European goldfinch, ''Carduelis carduelis''
*Fire-fronted serin, ''Serinus pusillus''
*Tibetan serin, ''Spinus thibetanus''
*Eurasian siskin, ''Spinus spinus''
Longspurs and snow buntings
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Calcariidae
The Calcariidae are a group of passerine birds which had been traditionally grouped with the New World sparrows, but differ in a number of respects and are usually found in open grassy areas.
*Lapland longspur, ''Calcarius lapponicus''
*Snow bunting, ''Plectrophenax nivalis''
Old World buntings
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Emberizidae
The emberizids are a large family of passerine birds. They are seed-eating birds with distinctively shaped bills. Many emberizid species have distinctive head patterns.
*Crested bunting, ''Emberiza lathami''
*Black-headed bunting, ''Emberiza melanocephala'' (A)
*Red-headed bunting, ''Emberiza bruniceps''
*Corn bunting, ''Emberiza calandra''
*Chestnut-eared bunting, ''Emberiza fucata''
*Tibetan bunting, ''Emberiza koslowi'' (E)
*Rufous-backed bunting, ''Emberiza jankowskii''
*Rock bunting, ''Emberiza cia''
*Godlewski's bunting, ''Emberiza godlewskii''
*Meadow bunting, ''Emberiza cioides''
*White-capped bunting, ''Emberiza stewarti'' (A)
*Yellowhammer, ''Emberiza citrinella''
*Pine bunting, ''Emberiza leucocephalos''
*Gray-necked bunting, ''Emberiza buchanani''
*Ortolan bunting, ''Emberiza hortulana''
*Slaty bunting, ''Emberiza siemsseni'' (E)
*Yellow-throated bunting, ''Emberiza elegans''
*Ochre-rumped bunting, ''Emberiza yessoensis''
*Pallas's bunting, ''Emberiza pallasi''
*Reed bunting, ''Emberiza schoeniclus''
*Yellow-breasted bunting, ''Emberiza aureola''
*Little bunting, ''Emberiza pusilla''
*Rustic bunting, ''Emberiza rustica''
*Yellow bunting, ''Emberiza sulphurata''
*Black-faced bunting, ''Emberiza spodocephala''
*Chestnut bunting, ''Emberiza rutila''
*Yellow-browed bunting, ''Emberiza chrysophrys''
*Tristram's bunting, ''Emberiza tristrami''
*Gray bunting, ''Emberiza variabilis'' (A)
New World sparrows
Order: PasseriformesFamily: Passerellidae
Until 2017, these species were considered part of the family Emberizidae. Most of the species are known as sparrows, but these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae. Many of these have distinctive head patterns.
*White-crowned sparrow, ''Zonotrichia leucophrys'' (A)
See also
*List of birds
*Lists of birds by region
*List of endangered and protected species of China
Notes
References
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