Asia is without a doubt the largest part of the Earth’s world. The vast territory, stretching from north to south and from west to east, includes the predominant part of the Eurasian mainland and adjacent islands. Asia combines several climatic zones, diverse relief, salt and fresh waters of the oceans. Taking into account all this, the animal and plant world of this part of the world is extremely large and diverse.
The species composition of such a class of animals as birds is no exception. Probably, neither America, nor Africa, nor the rest of the world can boast of such a quantity and variety of birds, as in Asia.
duck
black goose
Canadian goose
white goose
mute swan
Lesser White-fronted Lesser
tangerine
Black sea
Crested Duck
Pheasant
Keklik
Quail
black lofur
ptarmigan
hawksbill
Golden eagle
Sparrowhawk
striped hawk
goshawk
Marsh harrier
bald eagle
Steller’s sea eagle
white-eyed buzzard
eastern buzzard
Zimnyak
Upland Buzzard
loons
white-billed loon
red-throated loon
black-throated loon
white-necked loon
Albatrosses
dark-backed albatross
black-footed albatross
Petrel
slender-billed petrel
gray petrel
Toadstools
Grey-cheeked grebe
red-necked grebe
Black-necked grebe
Lesser grebe
Great grebe
Phaeton-shaped
Red-billed phaeton
red-tailed phaeton
white-tailed phaeton
storks
white-necked stork
White stork
Black stork
Far Eastern stork
Indian beak
Javanese marabou
ibis
Spoonbill
Karavayka
small spoonbill
black-headed ibis
red-legged ibis
Herons
bittern
green night heron
Kwakwa
white-winged heron
gray heron
Middle Egret
Little egret
yellow-billed heron
Other birds of Asia
Pelicans
pink pelican
Curly Pelican
Frigate
big frigate
ariel frigate
gannet
blue-faced booby
brown booby
red-footed booby
White-eyed
Brown-sided white-eye
Japanese white-eye
Bulbul
Short-toed Bulbul
Chinese real bulbul
passerines
field sparrow
red sparrow
corvidae
Crow
Black Crow
blue magpie
Daurian jackdaw
Rook
brilliant raven
Jay
Kedrovka
finches
tap dancing
Chizh
Siberian lentil
Chinese greenfinch
Siberian finch
Great black-headed grosbeak
Spruce crossbill
uragus
Bullfinch
Thrush
pied thrush
Siberian thrush
song thrush
Misery
blackbird
Belobrovik
olive thrush
Larks
field lark
Japanese lark
Lesser lark
Salt marsh lark
horned lark
Zavirushkovye
Alpine Accentor
Siberian Accentor
japanese hump
swallowtail
city swallow
Rufous-rumped swallow
barn swallow
brown-throated swallow
Beregovushka
Flycatcher
blue flycatcher
japanese robin
black-throated robin
Redthroat Nightingale
blue nightingale
Taiga flycatcher
Japanese flycatcher
Bluethroat
Oatmeal
Greyhead Bunting
Japanese oatmeal
black-throated bunting
red-eared bunting
common oatmeal
yellow-browed bunting
garden oatmeal
Warblers
Light-headed warbler
Kamchatka warbler
brown warbler
Chiffchaff
King’s warbler
Pitta
pitta nymph
black-headed pitta
Crickets
Sakhalin cricket
song cricket
taiga cricket
spotted cricket
Okhotsk cricket
Japanese cricket
Starlings
crested myna
Japanese starling
gray starling
Pastor
red-billed starling
Chinese starling
common starling
Wagtail
Steppe horse
mountain horse
forest horse
tree wagtail
white wagtail
mountain wagtail
yellow-headed wagtail
yellow wagtail
Conclusion
As you can see, almost all bird families are represented in Asia. They live in different environments and lead different lifestyles. There are terrestrial and flying, sedentary and migratory, herbivorous and predatory, near-water, waterfowl, marine, songbirds and many others. There are species whose existence is little threatened. And there are also birds that are given an “honorable” place in the Red Book due to the danger of their complete extinction or significant reduction. For example, the lesser white-fronted goose is a vulnerable shrinking species. But about the pink-headed duck, which previously lived in India, nothing has been known for more than 70 years.
