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White-browed forest plover, a bird of the Chinese Grebe family, shares everyone's appreciation

author:Chinese bird statistics photographer

The white-browed forest plover (scientific name: tarsiger indicus) is a small (14 cm) dark forest plover. White eyebrow lines are striking. The male has bluestone blue upperparts, black on the sides of the head, orange-brown underparts, and nearly white ventral center and subtail coverts. The female has olive-brown upperparts, white eyebrow lines, brown cheeks, light eye circles, dark ochre brown underparts, lighter abdomen, and yellowish undertail feathers. It is distinguished from the chestnut-bellied singing plover and the brown-breasted blue [Ji] Grebe in that it is large in size and has a wide eyebrow. Males of the subspecies indicus sometimes have brownish breeding periods, resembling female body feathers. The male of the subspecies forspecies morphologus has a yellow-olive crown and an olive-brown underbody. Iris - dark brown; mouth - near black; feet - gray brown.

White-browed forest plover, a bird of the Chinese Grebe family, shares everyone's appreciation
White-browed forest plover, a bird of the Chinese Grebe family, shares everyone's appreciation
White-browed forest plover, a bird of the Chinese Grebe family, shares everyone's appreciation

Distribution in China Are resident birds in southeastern Tibet; northwestern and western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan; Taiwan. It is rare in mixed forests and coniferous forests at an altitude of 2400 to 4300 meters.

Habits: Active in or near the ground in dense understory vegetation, not even afraid of people. The male flutters under his wings as he shows off, and his tail flicks.

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