Chickens, ducks, bulbuls, owls, babblers, wrens, grebes, bitches... Do you only know chickens and ducks?

There are many rare characters in the bird section, but most of them are no longer used in Amitabha. In the naming of natural history species, there are far fewer rare characters in the bird section than in the fish section.

Unlike the fish section, which mostly uses single characters, the bird section often uses two characters when used as species names. For example:

Mandarin ducks, parrots, wagtails, cormorants, pelicans, quails, partridges, cassowaries, emus, cuckoos, crane snipes, eagle owls, cuckoo storks, wrens, ibis, magpie robins, owls, wrens, and grebes.

Do you know what these birds look like?

Many friends think that "鴙鴘" is already the most uncommon character in the bird section, so let's take a look at "鳽": In the "Field Handbook of Chinese Birds", this character is written as "千干鸟", pronounced "yán", but this character cannot be found in the character library.

For example, the character "䳭" in "沙䳭" is already an uncommon character. You must not write it as "鵖". Friends who still don't know the reason can find the answer in the following text.

Okay, let’s start learning——

Author: Thin Camel

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