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Wading birds are one of the six major ecological groups of birds, including Craniformes, Storks, Flamingos and Ploveriformes. They refer to those birds that are adapted to living near water (all are wetland waterbirds). Including cranes, storks, ibises, bustards, spoonbills, etc.

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Wading birds Species

Browse bird profiles with scientific names, category labels, conservation status, and short summaries.

Tringa guttifer

Tringa guttifer

Tringa guttifer,Spotted Greenshank,Nordmann's GreenshankNordstrom's Snipe

Spotted Greenshank is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The little greenshank is a rare traveler in China. Spring i···

Numenius madagascariensis

Numenius madagascariensis

Numenius madagascariensis,Far Eastern Curlew,Redback Snipe, Redback Snipe, 黦 Snipe, Hausen

The foreign name is Far Eastern Curlew, and there are no subspecies.Curlews are mainly travellers in China. Some breed i···

Numenius minutus

Numenius minutus

Numenius minutus,Little Curlew,Little old oil can

Little Curlew is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The curlew usually moves mostly alone or in small groups, but it···

Limnodromus semipalmatus

Limnodromus semipalmatus

Limnodromus semipalmatus,Asian Dowitcher, Asiatic Dowitcher,Limnodrome semipalmé

The semi-webbed snipe (ban p Giryu), also known as Asian Dowitcher, is a small wading bird.They live alone or in small g···

Gallinago nemoricola

Gallinago nemoricola

Gallinago nemoricola,Wood Snipe

Wood Snipe, small wading bird, no subspecies.It is timid and withdrawn, often living alone on the banks of forests and r···

Metopidius indicus

Metopidius indicus

Metopidius indicus,Bronze-winged Jacana

Bronze-winged Jacana is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Copper-winged pheasant is a resident bird, active during ···

Hydrophasianus chirurgus

Hydrophasianus chirurgus

Hydrophasianus chirurgus,Pheasant-tailed Jacana,Pheasant-tailed pheasant-tailed pheasant

Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a small to medium sized bird with no subspecies.Water pheasants prefer to live alone or in sma···

Vanellus gregarius

Vanellus gregarius

Vanellus gregarius,Sociable Lapwing, Sociable Plover,Vanneau sociable,Chettusia gregaria ssp. gregaria,lar and Andrew,Chettusia gregaria ssp. gregaria,amp and Simmons,Long legged lapis

The Sociable Lapwingm is a medium-sized wading bird.Yellow-cheeked laphens are migratory birds with great flying abiliti···

Ibidorhyncha struthersii

Ibidorhyncha struthersii

Ibidorhyncha struthersii,Ibisbill

Ibisbill is a gray, black and white sandpiper with no subspecies.Ibisbill is a resident and vertical migratory bird. The···

Esacus magnirostris

Esacus magnirostris

Esacus magnirostris,Great Thick-knee

Great Thick-knee is a medium-sized wading bird with no subspecies.Great Thick-knee is a coastal bird that usually moves ···

Grus antigone

Grus antigone

Grus antigone,Sarus Crane

Sarus Crane is a large wading bird with three subspecies.Sarus Crane often moves alone or in pairs or family groups. In ···

Grus vipio

Grus vipio

Grus vipio,White-naped Crane, red-faced crane, white-crowned crane, native crane

White-naped Crane is a large wading bird with no subspecies.White-naped Crane mainly feeds on plant seeds, grass roots, ···

Porphyrio porphyrio

Porphyrio porphyrio

Porphyrio porphyrio,Purple Swamphen, Purple Gallinule, Purple Swamp-Hen,Poule sultane

Purple moorhen is called pukeko in foreign language. It is a medium-sized wading bird with 13 subspecies.Purple moorhen ···

Grus canadensis

Grus canadensis

Grus canadensis,Brown Crane, Canada Crane

Sandhill Crane is a large wading bird with the largest number of cranes in the world. It is divided into 6 subspecies wi···

Grus leucogeranus

Grus leucogeranus

Grus leucogeranus,Siberian Crane ,Siberian White Crane, Snow Crane,Siberian Crane, Nun Crane, Snow Crane

The Siberian Crane is a large wading bird. Although it is divided into three populations, namely the eastern, central an···

Porzana paykullii

Porzana paykullii

Porzana paykullii,Band-bellied Crake

Band-bellied Crake, whose foreign name is Band-bellied Crake, is a small wading bird with no subspecies.Spotted frogs mi···

Zapornia parva

Zapornia parva

Zapornia parva,Porzana parva,Little Crake

Little Crake is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The frog often moves alone or in family groups. It is good at swi···

Zapornia bicolor

Zapornia bicolor

Zapornia bicolor,Black-tailed Crake,Amaurornis bicolor,Porzana bicolor,Black-tailed bittern

The brown-backed frog is called Black-tailed Crake in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The brown-backed frog is a···

Crex crex

Crex crex

Crex crex,Corncrake, Corn Crake

The foreign name of the long-legged rail is Corncrake, Corn Crake, which is a small wading bird with no subspecies.The l···

Coturnicops exquisitus

Coturnicops exquisitus

Coturnicops exquisitus,Swinhoes Yellow Rail

The foreign name of the Swinhoes Yellow Rail is Swinhoes Yellow Rail, and there is no subspecies.Some of the Swinhoes Ye···

Tetrax tetrax

Tetrax tetrax

Tetrax tetrax, Little Bustard,Outarde canepetière, Sisón,Ground

Little Bustard, also known as Little Bustard in English, is a large bird of the family Bustard, with no subspecies.Littl···

Chlamydotis macqueeni

Chlamydotis macqueeni

Spotted Bustard、Chlamydotis macqueeni,Macqueen's Bustard

Houbara Bustard, also known as Macqueen's Bustard, has no subspecies. A large ground-dwelling bird, once a subspecie···

Otis tarda

Otis tarda

Otis tarda,Great Bustard,Avutarda, Avutarda Común,Додук, Մեծ արոս, Дуадақ,Ground quail, old brocade, lone leopard, wild goose

The Great Bustard has two subspecies, both of which are distributed in China. The common subspecies breeds in Qiqihar, H···

Anthropoides virgo

Anthropoides virgo

Anthropoides virgo,Demoiselle Crane,Lady Crane

The Demoiselle Crane is the smallest crane. It is blue-gray in color, with black eyes, sides of the head, throat and fro···

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