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Category: Waders & Shorebirds
Little Egret
A slender white heron with black legs, yellow feet and fine plumes, feeding in shallow water.
Great Egret
A large white heron with a yellow bill and long neck, striking and graceful.
Grey Heron
A tall gray heron with a long neck and dagger-like bill, hunting by standing motionless.
Black-crowned Night Heron
A stocky heron with a black cap and red eyes, active at dusk.
Chinese Pond Heron
A small heron, brown in breeding, gray in non-breeding, common in wetlands.
Cattle Egret
A small white heron that follows cattle to catch insects, with buff plumes in breeding.
Great Blue Heron
A large gray-blue heron of North American wetlands, stately fisher.
Red-crowned Crane
A majestic white crane with a red crown, symbol of longevity in East Asia.
Common Crane
A gray crane with a black-and-white head, migrating in large flocks with trumpeting calls.
Hooded Crane
A gray crane with a white hood and dark neck, rare and endangered.
Siberian Crane
A pure-white crane with a red face, critically endangered, migrating long distances.
Demoiselle Crane
The smallest crane, with a white plume behind the eye, crossing the Himalayas in migration.
Black-necked Crane
A high-altitude crane with a black neck and red crown, nesting on the Tibetan Plateau.
Sandhill Crane
A gray crane with a red forehead, gathering in huge flocks during migration.
Crested Ibis
A white ibis with a red face and crest, once nearly extinct, now protected in China.
Black-faced Spoonbill
A white spoonbill with a black face and a spoon-shaped bill, globally endangered.
Eurasian Spoonbill
A white spoonbill with a long flat spatulate bill, feeding by sweeping in shallow water.
White Stork
A large white stork with black wing tips and a red bill, nesting on rooftops in Europe.
Black Stork
A shy black stork with white belly and red bill, a rare forest wetland bird.
Greater Flamingo
A tall pink flamingo with a down-bent bill, feeding by filter-feeding in shallow lakes.
Andean Flamingo
A pink flamingo with yellow legs, living at high-altitude Andean salt lakes.
Pied Avocet
A black-and-white wader with a long upturned bill, sweeping side to side in shallow water.
Black-winged Stilt
A striking wader with very long pink legs and a black-and-white body.
Eurasian Oystercatcher
A black-and-white shorebird with a long orange bill, prying open shellfish.
