The red-necked plover (scientific name: turdus ruficollis) is about 25 cm long. The male has grey-brown upperparts , reddish brown eyebrows , neck , throat , and thorax ( northern subspecies have no eyebrow striae and the throat and thorax are black ) , grey-brown wings , gray-brown central tail feathers , and grey-brown lateral tail feathers. White from the abdomen to the buttocks. The female resembles a male , but has a lighter chestnut red part and a black longitudinal stripe on the throat. Medium-sized eagles. The upper body is grayish brown, the abdomen and buttocks are pure white, and the wings are lined with reddish brown. There were originally two subspecies, and after research, the two subspecies are now independent of each other. t. ruficollis has brown face, throat and upper breast, white spots in winter, light tail feathers, and brown feather margins. t. Atrogularis has a black face , throat and upper breast , more white longitudinal stripes in winter , and no brown feathers in the tail feathers. Females and juveniles have light eyebrow lines and many longitudinal stripes on their lower bodies. Iris - brown; mouth - yellow, black at the tip; feet - near brown.
China is distributed in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Beijing, Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.
Distribution: It is very common in evergreen forests at an altitude of 1000 to 3000 meters. T. atrogularis breed in the western part of the Altai Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Kashgar and Kunlun Mountains in northwestern China. t. ruficollis winter through central and northeastern China to southeastern Tibet and western Yunnan. Habits: into loose groups. Sometimes mixed with other plovers. Make and jump when on the ground. (For species information, see Stepanyan, 1990; knystautas, 1993）
It inhabits hillside meadows or hilly sparse forests and plain shrublands. It moves in loose groups, feeding on insects , small animals , and grass seeds and berries. It breeds from May to July and nests on the branches of small trees under the forest. The number of eggs in the nest is 4 to 5, and the eggs are pale blue or blue-green with reddish-brown spots.