Male sand grouse fly up to 30 miles to soak their belly feathers with water and bring it back for their babies Even though I am unlikely to see any of China's amazing endangered species, I could still write about them for you. No animal represents amazing desert adaptations better than the sand grouse. They can live in places where there's no water available at all, eating seeds and vegetable shoots and making their nests in the sand without nesting material, just the hole gouged by their turning body.
Sand grouse look a lot like pigeons and in fact they are close relatives.
They are found in dry open areas mostly covered with sand and short grass. They hardly fly at all, preferring to stay on the ground and eat all day unless they are scared into taking flight by a predator, like a hawk or owl. They can drink, too. Sand grouse have other cool desert adaptations too, like when they stand tall and raise their wings over the nest to create a big shadow, cooling the eggs below. They also have a sac of air underneath the skin in their breast area, which insulates their bodies from the extreme desert heat and also reflects the harsh rays of the sun.