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The scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser (Mergus squamatus) is an endangered typical merganser (genus Mergus). It lives in Manchuria and extreme Southeast Siberia , breeding in the north and wintering in the south.
The Brazilian merganser (M. octosetaceus) is a South American duck, and one of the six most threatened waterfowl in the world, with possibly fewer than 250 birds in the wild. The scaly-sided merganser or "Chinese merganser" (M. squamatus) is an endangered species. It lives in temperate East Asia, breeding in the north and wintering in the south.
The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America. The common merganser eats mainly fish.
NO. 20: 2-FOOT-LONG CREATURE — WITH BLUE LIPS AND YELLOW EYES — DISCOVERED AS NEW SPECIES. Photos show the brightly colored animal found in tree hollows and coastal forests of Vietnam. ...
The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of fish-eating duck in the subfamily Anatinae. It is the only extant species in the genus Lophodytes . The genus name derives from the Greek language : lophos meaning 'crest', and dutes meaning 'diver'.
Chinese species include the greater, little, round-eared, Hutton's, and dusky tube-nosed bat. The dusky tube-nosed bat is endemic to Heilongjiang and Jilin in northeastern China. The greater tube-nosed bat of Beijing feeds on aerial beetles. [241] The painted bat and Hardwicke's woolly bat, also vesper bats, live in the forests of southern China.
Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in China. The avifauna of China include a total of 1431 species, of which 57 are endemic , and 3 have been introduced by humans. Of these, 108 species are globally threatened.