Yellow-browed Grebe, Grebe family
It is a small bird with small plumage that is mainly black and yellow. The male has a black upperpart, a yellow waist, white patches on the wings, characterized by yellow eyebrow lines, and the underparts are mostly orange.] The female has olive gray upperparts, a brown tail, and a light brownish yellowish underparts.
Its natural habitats are montane broad-leaved forests, mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests and forest margins, with an altitude of about 2000 meters.
It is often active alone or in pairs, mostly between the branches and leaves of the canopy, preying on insects from the top of the tree and between trees, and also flying into the air to prey on flying insects. host
It feeds mainly on insects and insect larvae such as Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, hymenoptera and other insects.
It is found in China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the Russian Federation (East Asia).
In Shanghai, it is a transit bird that begins to migrate to and through China at the end of March and the beginning of April, and in the autumn, except for some staying in China for wintering, most of them migrate to Southeast Asia for wintering in September and October.
Photographed in Nanhui, Shanghai
The male bird is pictured