Birds and I

This small passerine bird breeds in southern Siberia, northeastern China and Korea. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia. It is a species found in lowland and coastal regions, nesting in forests or thickets.

민물가마우지가 물에서 나온 후 날개를 펼쳐 햇볕에 말리는 이유는 깃가지와 깃소유의 결합 형태가 물이 바깥쪽 깃털을 통과해 안쪽까지 쉽게 스며들도록 되어 있기 때문입니다. The Great Cormorants spread their wings in the sun after coming out of the water because the structure of their barbs and barbules allows water to easily penetrate past the outer feathers into the inner layers.

This species is considered endangered by the IUCN. According to its current IUCN classification EN C2a(ii), fewer than 5000 adult and first and second year old birds remain, and most of these are found in Primorye and South Khabarovsk regions of Russia 85%.

널리 분포하는 대륙 아종인 P. c. sinensis는 유럽 본토 대부분과 팔레아틱 반도를 넘어 시베리아 및 동남아시아까지 동쪽으로 분포합니다. The widespread continental subspecies P. c. sinensis occurs on most of mainland Europe and east across the Palearctic to Siberia and southeastern Asia.

Scaly-sided Mergansers are migratory, wintering in central and southern China, with small numbers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, northern Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand. They arrive on the breeding grounds as soon as winter is over, in March, and leave when the first cold nights come in mid November.

Adults have long yellow legs and a bill that is long, thin, and dark. The bill is longer than the head and often has a slight upward curve. The body is grey-brown on top and white underneath; the neck and breast are streaked with dark brown. The rump is white. It ranges in length from 29 to 40 cm and in weight from 111 to 250 g . Wingspan is 60 cm.

Vega gulls breed in northeastern Siberia, and migrate south to winter in Japan, Korea, eastern China, and Taiwan. In their winter range they are typically found in harbours, on rocky shores and at river mouths.

These birds forage in shallow water, sometimes using their bills to stir up the water. They mainly eat insects and small fish, as well as crustaceans, marine worms, frogs, seeds and berries.

Their breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the boreal forest region of Canada and Alaska. They migrate to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, the Caribbean, and south to South America.