Country ยท Asia
Animals of People's Republic of China
38 animals on this site have a range that includes People's Republic of China. Each fact file has a map with the whole range.
38 profiles
VUMammals
Asian black bear
Ursus thibetanus
The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.
Living
LCMammals
Asian palm civet
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
The Asian palm civet is a small, cat-like viverrid of South and Southeast Asia that climbs trees at night to eat fruit.
Living
LCBirds
Barn swallow
Hirundo rustica
The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.
Living
NTBirds
Bearded vulture
Gypaetus barbatus
The bearded vulture is a huge mountain raptor that lives almost entirely on bone.
Living
VUMammals
Binturong
Arctictis binturong
The binturong is a large, shaggy civet of the South and Southeast Asian forest canopy.
Living
LCBirds
Black kite
Milvus migrans
The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.
Living
LCBirds
Black swan
Cygnus atratus
The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.
Living
LCMammals
Brown rat
Rattus norvegicus
The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.
Living
LCBirds
Budgerigar
Melopsittacus undulatus
The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.
Living
LCBirds
Cockatiel
Nymphicus hollandicus
The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.
Living
LCBirds
Common kingfisher
Alcedo atthis
The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.
Living
LCBirds
Common myna
Acridotheres tristis
The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.
Living
LCBirds
Common pheasant
Phasianus colchicus
The common pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.
Living
LCMammals
Common raccoon dog
Nyctereutes procyonoides
The common raccoon dog is a stocky, fox-like canid of East Asia with a black face mask like a raccoon's.
Living
LCBirds
Common swift
Apus apus
The common swift is a blackish-brown bird with narrow curved wings that catches every meal in the air.
Living
LCBirds
Eurasian eagle-owl
Bubo bubo
The Eurasian eagle-owl is one of the largest owls in the world, with orange eyes and long ear tufts.
Living
LCBirds
Eurasian jay
Garrulus glandarius
The Eurasian jay is a pinkish-brown crow with a bright blue panel on each wing.
Living
LCMammals
Eurasian lynx
Lynx lynx
The Eurasian lynx is the biggest of the four lynx species and the largest wild cat in Europe.
Living
LCBirds
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a small hawk that hunts other birds by ambush.
Living
VUMammals
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
The giant panda is a bear that eats almost nothing but bamboo.
Living
LCBirds
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.
Living
LCMammals
Gray wolf
Canis lupus
The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.
Living
LCBirds
Grey heron
Ardea cinerea
The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.
Living
VUReptiles
King cobra
Ophiophagus hannah
The king cobra is the longest venomous snake.
Living
LCMammals
Leopard cat
Prionailurus bengalensis
The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.
Living
LCBirds
Mandarin duck
Aix galericulata
The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.
Living
LCMammals
Moose
Alces alces
The moose is the largest deer.
Living
LCMammals
Pallas's cat
Otocolobus manul
The Pallas's cat is a small, thick-furred wild cat of the Central Asian steppe and mountains.
Living
LCBirds
Peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus
The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.
Living
LCMammals
Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.
Living
LCBirds
Red junglefowl
Gallus gallus
The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.
Living
LCMammals
Red squirrel
Sciurus vulgaris
The red squirrel is a small tree squirrel of the conifer and broadleaf forests of Europe and northern Asia.
Living
LCMammals
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta
The rhesus macaque is a brown monkey with a pink face that lives in large, rank-ordered troops across South and East Asia.
Living
LCMammals
Sable
Martes zibellina
The sable is a small marten of the Siberian taiga, hunted for centuries for the softest fur in the trade.
Living
VUMammals
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
The snow leopard lives on steep, rocky slopes high in the mountains of Central Asia.
Living
VUBirds
Steller's sea eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus
Steller's sea eagle is the heaviest eagle in the world, a black and white fish hunter of the northeast Asian coast.
Living
ENMammals
Tiger
Panthera tigris
The tiger is the largest living cat and the only one with stripes.
Living
LCMammals
Wild boar
Sus scrofa
The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.
Living
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