The red-eared snipe is pronounced hóng ěr bēi i.

Red-eared snipe is a bird belonging to the family Nymphalidae and genus Nymphalidae. Red-eared snipe is black from the forehead to the top of the head, with a towering black crest on the top of the head and a crimson feather cluster behind the eyes, forming a erythema; Ear feathers and cheeks are white, immediately below erythema. The rest of the upper body, such as the back neck, back to tail, is brown or khaki, and some specimens have brown-red feather edges.

The tail is dark brown or dark brown, except for 1-2 pairs of tail feathers in the center, the other tail feathers have white end spots, and the white spots expand outward to the outer tail feathers until the whole end. The wings are covered with feathers of the same color as the back, the flying feathers are dark brown or dark brown, and the outer headland is slightly khaki or light khaki. The cheeks and throat are white, and there is a thin black line between them, which extends from the base of the mouth along the cheek white spot to the back of the ear feather.

The rest of the lower body is white or nearly white, with light brown or smoky brown on both sides. There is a wide dark brown or black horizontal belt on both sides of the chest, which extends from the lower neck to the middle of the chest and gradually narrows, and finally stops at the center of the chest to form an incomplete chest belt, and the tail is covered with bright red or orange red feathers.

Red-eared snipe mainly inhabits forests such as rain forest, monsoon forest and evergreen broad-leaved forest in low mountains and foothills below 15 meters above sea level, and is also found in shrubs and sparse trees and grass slopes in open areas such as forest edges, roadsides, streams and farmland, and sometimes even in bamboo forests, trees or shrubs near courtyards and villages.

Life habit of red-eared snipe:

Red-eared snipe is a resident bird. Sexually active, they often move in small groups of more than 1, sometimes in large groups of more than 2-3, and sometimes in mixed groups with red-rumped snipes and yellow-rumped snipes. Most of the day in the tree canopy or shrub activities and foraging. Good at singing, the singing is light and pleasant, and there are sounds like "cloth-cloth-cloth" or "Wei-kick-wow".

Usually, while jumping for food, they sing. Omnivorous, but mainly plant-based food, it is common to peck at seeds, fruits, flowers and grass seeds of trees and shrubs, especially the fruits of trees and shrubs such as banyan, plum, heather and indigo. Animal foods are mainly insects and insect larvae such as COLEOPTERA, LEPIDOPTERA, ORTHOPTERA and HYMENOPTERA.