Class Name： (Ciconiiformes)
Family Name:： (Aredeidae)
Scientific Name：Egretta garzetta
Common Name：Little Egret
Feature：White body with black feet and a black beak. Lime
claws. Bright
red eyes. Squawking may be heard when flying.
Life style：Usually appears at river or swamp at ground or low
aptitude, some of them will migrate to the south during winter. They
are social animals that live in groups. Stir the water with their
claws to scare and catch their prey.
Class Name：
(Ciconiiformes)
Family Name： (Aredeidae)
Scientific Name：Ardea cinerea
Common Name：Gray Heron
Feature：White head with black feathers on both sides of the wings.
Grey long neck with a few vertical black lines on. Brown feet and
beak. Produce high pitch noise when flying.
Life Style: Usually found in salt pan, swamp or sandbank areas.
Class Name： (Anseriformes)
Family Name： (Anatidae)
Scientific Name：Anas poecilorhyncha
Common Name：Spot-billed Duck
Feature ：Black beak with yellow tip, orange feet. Brown face and
upper neck, white eyebrows. The top of the head, lower neck, back
and breast are dark brown, but the edge of the feathers is light.
Life Style：They appear at river, sandbank, lake and swamp areas.
Class Name： (Anseriformes)
Family Name： (Anatidae)
Scientific Name：Anas acuta
Common Name：Pintail
Feature：Male birds have black beaks with leaden edge; Dark grey paws
and dark brown heads. Posterior necks and backs are grey. A vibrant
white line from the back side of the head to the neck. Female birds
have shorter and pointier tails.
Life Style：They appear at river, sandbank, lack and swamp areas.
Scientific Name：Himantopus himantopus
Common Name：Black-winged Stilt
Feature：The characteristic sign of this bird is that they have long
red feet that look like they are walking on stilts. Their black
beaks are straight and long. White body with black back and wings are
really noticeable.
Life Style：They love to stay at deeper water as well as fallow water
farms. It’s difficult to find them by the riverside and sandbanks.
They are polyphagias, feeding on aquatic insects, fish ,amphibians
and plants.
Class Name: Passeriformes
Family Name: Zosteropidae
Scientific Name: Zosterops japonica
Common Name:Japanese White-ey
Feature: Olive color head, neck, back and tail. Visible white rings
found around the eyes. Yellow feathers found on the throat and below
the tail region. They have black beak and gray feet. They are tiny
and cute and their songs are beautiful.
Life Style: They are the most commonly found stay bird in Taiwan,
they are found in the forest of under 1500meter in altitude. They
are social animals that stay in groups. Mostly feed on insects,
pollen and fruits. During mating seasons, you can often hear the
male birds singing in the morning.
Class Name：Passeriformes
Family Name: Motacillidae
Scientific Name：Motacilla flava
Common Name：Yellow Wagtail
Feature: Slim birds, with black feet, their feathers change
according to different seasons. In winter their abdomen is gray, in
summer transformed into bright yellow. They have yellow eyebrows
too, their backs in lime green.
Life Style: Wagtails are migrant birds that are commonly seen in
Taiwan, Wagtails are not afraid of human. They are usually found
feeding in the low altitude wetlands or farms. They look like a wave
when flying. You will find them in winter times.
Class Name: Coraciiformes
Family Name: Alcedinidae
Scientific Name: Alcedo atthis
Common Name: Common Kingfisher
Feature: The male bird have black beak and red feet, dark green head
and neck with light blue spots, short tails. The Kingfisher has
orange feathers above head and ear, white throat, and orange chest.
Kingfisher is a round cute bird. The females look just like the
males, but have red beaks.
Life Style: They are stay birds that can be commonly found in low
altitude rivers and streams in Taiwan. They love to build their nest
on the walls of the trench. However the trench walls are now build
in cement; therefore they can not build their nest, that is why the
population of the Kingfishers are decreasing drastically. They
usually stand on the rock to find their pray, once they find it,
they fly down to catch their pray.
Class Name: Charadriiformes
Family Name: Rostratulidae
Scientific Name: Rostratula benghalensis
Common Name: Painted Snipe
Feature: The males and females are distinct in color, their abdomen
are in white, and their beak long and curved downwards. The males
have green and spotty head and neck. The female bird
are burgundy,
with their backs and wings are brown and spotty. Females are green with
long black strips, white rings on their eyes, and male birds have
yellow rings on their eyes.
Life Style: Tropical birds, they are common stay birds in Taiwan.
They are social birds that mainly live in wet grasslands, swamp and
water farms. They usually hide inside, so it is not easy to find
them, They usually come out in the morning, and feed on insects and
plant seeds. Their mating season is on March, females look
aggressively for their mates they leave after laying 4 eggs, the
male birds then act as mothers to their young, the female will then
depart to find other mates.
