The red-eared grebe, in the Field Manual of Chinese Birds No. 896 (scientific name: pycnonotus jocosus), is a bird of the family Grebe and the genus Grebe. The red-eared quail is a small bird with a body length of 17–21 cm.
The forehead is black to the top of the head, the top of the head has a towering black crown, there is a bright red spot behind the eyes, and there is a white spot under it, and the outer periphery is black, which is very conspicuous on the head.
The upper body is brown. The tail is dark brown with white end spots on the outer tail feathers.
The underparts are white and the undertails are red. The cheekbones are black with a blackish brown transverse band on the side of the thorax.
The red-eared grebe mainly inhabits the low mountains below 1500 meters above sea level and the foothills of the rain forest, monsoon forest, evergreen broad-leaved forest and other forests.
Sexually active, most of the day in the canopy of trees or shrubs active and foraging, mainly plant food, common pecking trees and shrub seeds, fruits, flowers and grasses, especially banyan trees, tang plums, heather, blue indigo and other trees and shrub fruits.
Animal food is mainly insects and insect larvae such as Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera.
Distribution in China: Distributed in southeastern Tibet, east through southern Yunnan, southern Guizhou, and southern Guangxi to western Guangdong and Hong Kong (resident birds).
The red-eared quail has been included in the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State or of Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
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