Yunnan Hundred Flowers Ridge Bird Shooting No. 39: Grey-winged Noisy Partridge

Li Yonghong Photography

The Grey-winged Grebe (scientific name: Garrulax cineraceus) is a medium-sized bird with a body length of 21 to 25 cm. The forehead is black, the top of the head is black or gray, and the eyes and face are white. The upper body is olive brown to tan , the tail and medial flight feathers have narrow white end spots and broad black sub-terminal spots , and the lateral primary flight feathers are bluish grey or gray with black cheek lines. The underparts are mostly light brown; the mouth and feet are yellow. Pairs or small groups move in secondary shrublands and bamboo thickets, sometimes near villages.

China is widely distributed, and the population is more common, and the birds are resident. It is distributed in southwestern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, south of Wenshui, Shanxi, the Yangtze River Basin and the provinces south of the Yangtze River, east to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, south to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Guangxi, and west to western Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and eastern Tibet and Qamdo.