호사비오리 수컷 (Scaly-sided Merganser Male))

The scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser is an endangered typical merganser.

It lives in Manchuria and extreme Southeast Siberia, breeding in the north and wintering in the south.

 

Their breeding habitat is rivers in primary forest in the southeastern Russian Far East, perhaps in North Korea.

 

It is wintering in central and southern China, with small numbers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.

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.